Warren Barguil will not take the start of the 13th stage of the Tour de France between Le Bourg-d’Oisans and Saint-Etienne. The rider from the Breton Arkéa-Samsic team is positive for Covid-19. It is his team which announces it on its Twitter account while specifying that the seven other runners have tested negative. “Thank you very much Wawa“, concludes the message, Wawa being the nickname of the Breton.
The Morbihannais was 24th in the general classification more than 42 minutes behind the Danish yellow jersey Jonas Vingegaard.
Warren Barguil is the sixth runner to have to give up following a positive test for Covid-19 after the New Zealander George Bennett (UAE), the Norwegian Vegard Stake Laengen (UAE), the Australian Luke Durbridge (Bike-Exchange), the French Geoffrey Bouchard (AG2R Citroën ) and Guillaume Martin (Cofidis).