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Sir Dave Brailsford has advised Telegraph Sport his staff will be redoubling efforts to avoid another event of Covid-19 after among the team members tested positive for the virus at the most recent form of testing. Brailsford was talking amid additional confusion on the way the Covid-19 exclusion principles will apply in this Tour de France. Ineos were among four groups — together with Mitchelton-Scott, Cofidis and AG2R — discovered to possess one favorable in their positions in the previous batch of examining. Organisers ASO stated prior to the race which any staff found to have 2 staff members analyzing positive for Covid-19’inside a six-month interval’ will be shipped home. But it’s unclear once the clock began ticking {} seven-day countdown or {} that principle may be implemented. Half of each group was analyzed last Sunday and another half Monday and they’ll be analyzed again next Sunday and Monday at precisely exactly the exact identical manner. Even the’seven-day’ rule can in theory return to minutes or hours. Reuters were reporting Wednesday day which ASO might backtrack and reset the day-count after consultation with all the French authorities. Furthermore, there’s the issue of the part of the team member in question as to if he or she’s regarded as a danger to the race. That is an issue that was brought up using ASO before the Tour, if clubs were worried they might be excluded even though not one of their passengers tested positive. ASO briefly relented and said that a group would just be excluded if 2 passengers tested positive, only to return to 2 staff members under strain from the authorities. Tour de France 2020: So when will each point begin, how long will be your race and also how do I follow the activity? Brailsford failed to affirm itTelegraph Sport knows the team member who tested positive in Ineos was operating a day or 2 before their race, cleaning and sterilising resort rooms among other tasks in prep for those riders. The individual in question has experienced additional evaluations, such as blood tests, to indicate a false positive. In any event, Brailsford said that his staff were doing everything that they could to prevent additional positives. “I believe there is little doubt about it, even whenever you have staff possibly going into place up hotels…. We have only had three days at a resort [both sides of this remainder day] at which there were additional members of people essentially. And whilst I did not set foot at the resort [Brailsford remains in a motor home while in the Tour] someone needed to move in and put that up at the first location. And in the moment that is quite large danger. “So we have only been going through everything to attempt and identify in which the larger areas of danger are, and also to check if we could place any interventions set up. We are not purchasing. Nobody will the stores. Someone goes forward of the race to get us really. {They pick it up and drop it off{} then we pick this up and deliver it into the group. |} As soon as we stop for gasoline nobody belongs in… So we are attempting to truly restrict contact with the public. And clearly logically from the group — distancing, mask-wearing, gelling etc — we are very stern about it”

Sir Dave Brailsford has advised Telegraph Sport his staff will be redoubling efforts to avoid another event of Covid-19 after among the team members tested positive for the virus at the most recent form of testing. Brailsford was talking amid additional confusion on the way the Covid-19 exclusion principles will apply in this Tour de […]

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