{"id":6560,"date":"2024-07-14T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=6560"},"modified":"2024-07-14T17:50:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T21:50:47","slug":"tour-de-france-reinstates-covid-19-measures-as-more-cases-emerge-in-the-peloton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/tour-de-france-reinstates-covid-19-measures-as-more-cases-emerge-in-the-peloton\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Reinstates COVID-19 Measures as More Cases Emerge in the Peloton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tour de France has reinstated COVID-19 protective measures, requiring race organizers, media, and guests to wear masks when in contact with riders and team staff. This protocol was announced by race organizer ASO on Sunday morning after several recent COVID-19 cases among the peloton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to limit health risks, it is now compulsory to wear a mask in the various areas where you will be in contact with the riders and members of the cycling teams,\u201d read the statement from the ASO.<\/p>\n<p>Riders who have abandoned the race due to the virus include Tom Pidcock (INEOS Grenadiers), Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates), and Michael M\u00f8rk\u00f8v (Astana-Qazaqstan). Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers) remains in the Tour despite testing positive, as the rules currently allow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are so many people at the start and finish. COVID doesn&#8217;t just enter the peloton; it comes from outside,\u201d said Remco Evenepoel of Soudal-QuickStep. Evenepoel has recently been wearing a mask in the mixed zone before and after stages and has called for the organization to enforce stricter COVID-19 measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tour de France has reinstated COVID-19 protective measures, requiring race organizers, media, and guests to wear masks when in contact with riders and team staff. This protocol was announced by race organizer ASO on Sunday morning after several recent COVID-19 cases among the peloton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to limit health risks, it is now compulsory to wear a mask in the various areas where you will be in contact with the riders and members of the cycling teams,\u201d read the statement from the ASO.<\/p>\n<p>Riders who have abandoned the race due to the virus include Tom Pidcock (INEOS Grenadiers), Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates), and Michael M\u00f8rk\u00f8v (Astana-Qazaqstan). Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers) remains in the Tour despite testing positive, as the rules currently allow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/tour-de-france-reinstates-covid-19-measures-as-more-cases-emerge-in-the-peloton\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tour de France Reinstates COVID-19 Measures as More Cases Emerge in the Peloton<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,322,405,334,123,19,245,304,14,323,143],"class_list":["post-6560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-cycling","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-france","tag-masks","tag-n95-respirators","tag-outbreaks","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-tour-de-france","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6564,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions\/6564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}