The shock will still have to wait.
The Top 14 meeting between Racing 92 and La Rochelle, scheduled for Sunday at 3 p.m., is again postponed after other positive tests for the coronavirus at the leader of the championship, announces the National Rugby League (LNR).
The match, initially scheduled for Saturday, had already been postponed after a first case of Covid-19 and questionable symptoms in two other players in the Maritimes.
"Three new cases of Covid 19 were detected by Friday's tests within the professional team," explains the Charente-Maritime training.
Pending directives from the LNR Expertise Commission, the entire group remains in isolation.
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Following the results of the new RT-PCR tests concerning the Stade Rochelais workforce, and after the opinion of the Covid-19 expert committee, the NRL Bureau, meeting this morning, took the decision to postpone the meeting @racing / @staderochelais scheduled for this Sunday.
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- TOP 14 Rugby (@ top14rugby) January 9, 2021
The calendar is stretching
On the same social network, Racing 92, third in the Top 14, wished “good luck and a good recovery” to the Rochelais.
In full fluff, Laurent Travers' men had the opportunity to pass in front of their opponents in the event of victory on Sunday.
In its press release, the NRL does not indicate a specific postponement date for the meeting.
After Toulon-Bayonne, Racing 92-La Rochelle is the second match of this 14th day to be postponed because of the coronavirus epidemic.
In all, nine late games have yet to be played in a schedule that is starting to tighten.
Five of them have already been reprogrammed during the Six Nations Tournament.
Montpellier-Castres, Bordeaux-Bègles-Clermont and Racing 92-Toulon will compete on the weekend of February 6, while the French internationals will be in Italy.
Montpellier-Stade Français and Clermont-Lyon are scheduled for the weekend of the 27th, the same as France-Scotland.
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