Access to the Tour de France teams' paddock, where the riders' buses are located, will now be closed in order "
to fight even more effectively
" against the spread of Covid-19, the organizers announced on Tuesday.
"
Only representatives of the International Cycling Union (jury, commissioners, anti-doping agents), team staff, and staff of the organization supervising the teams will now have access to
it", specified the management of the Tour.
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Media representatives and guests of the various teams, who could enter the paddock until today, will no longer be able to.
The measure was requested by several teams worried about the first positive cases of coronavirus detected in the Tour peloton.
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Two more riders, New Zealander George Bennett (UAE), yellow jersey teammate Tadej Pogacar, and Australian Luke Durbridge (BikeExchange), tested positive and had to leave the race Tuesday morning in Morzine, before the start of the tenth stage.
In total, five runners gave up because of the Covid-19, in full resurgence on French territory.