The covid continues to make its presence felt at the Giro d’Italia and shrinks the peloton, which daily registers casualties due to a virus that seems to have been forgotten; On the eleventh day that takes place between Camaiore and Tortona, 219 km long, 8 runners did not make it to the start, 6 of them tested positive for covid.
One team particularly punished by covid, Soudal Quick Step, which, down from the leader of the formation and ‘pink jersey’ Remco Evenepoel, added four more riders this Wednesday: Jan Hirt, Josef Cerny, Louis Vervaeke and Mattia Cattaneo.
Soudal continues the race with three riders: Davide Ballerini, Pieter Serry and Ilan Van Wilder.
In addition, two other runners did not start due to illness, the Ecuadorian Jonathan Caicedo (EF Education) and the Eritrean Natnael Tesfatsion (Trek).
There are already 19 runners who have abandoned the Giro due to covidto the above we must add a long list that includes Vlasov, Urán, Pozzovivo, Scotson, Bystrom, Würtz Schmidt, Riesebeek, Taaramaë, Russo, Conci, Aleotti and Filippo Ganna.
Source: La Verdad
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