The spectre of COVID-19 has loomed over the first half of the Tour de France, with five riders having not made the start of the race due to positive tests and close contacts, a further three testing positive for the virus in the last two days, and another heading home suffering from long COVID.
After nine days of racing, the peloton now reaches its first rest day of the race (the move from Denmark to France was officially a ‘travel day’, though in reality a rest day for riders) and, with it, the first round of in-race COVID-19 testing.
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