DOLE, France (Reuters) – Geoffrey Bouchard grew to become the primary Tour de France rider to drag out of the race with COVID-19, his AG2R-Citroen crew mentioned on Saturday.
“During the (seventh) stage (on Friday) I didn’t really feel effectively. It’s an enormous disappointment as a result of we have been simply attending to my favorite terrain, the mountains,” Bouchard mentioned in a crew assertion.
Bouchard, 30, received the mountains classification on the 2019 Tour if Spain and in final 12 months’s Giro d’Italia.
AG2R-Citroen mentioned that the remainder of the squad, from which Bouchard was remoted, was destructive for COVID-19.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)
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