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Four more Soudal Quick-Step riders in the Giro d'Italia squad have tested positive for COVID-19 and will leave the race, the team said on Wednesday, three days after world champion Remco Evenepoel abandoned the event.
Four Soudal Quick-Step riders have withdrawn from the Giro d’Italia after testing positive for Covid-19. It has been a desperately disappointing Grand Tour for Patrick Lefevere’s team, who lost general classification contender Remco Evenepoel to the virus after he tested positive on Sunday. Ad In a statement released on Wednesday, the team confirmed that Jan Hirt, Josef Cerny, Louis Vervaeke and Matteo Cattaneo will not start Stage 11 and have left the race immediately.
Patrick Lefevere, the team manager of Soudal-QuickStep, and the team doctor, Toon Cruyt, have defended the decision to withdraw Remco Evenepoel from the Giro d'Italia after he tested positive for Covid-19. Confirming that Evenepoel is still positive after undergoing further testing in Belgium, Lefevere acknowledged that the young cyclist is feeling better. Ad Evenepoel is expected to take a 10-day break from cycling and will then undergo cardiological tests.
Stage 11 of the 2023 Giro d'Italia is the longest stage of this year's race, a 219km route from Camaiore to Tortona. Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) will wear the leader's maglia rosa for a second time following the shock withdrawal of Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) after a positive Covid-19 test.
Magnus Cort won a wet and cold 10th stage of the Giro d'Italia on Tuesday and Geraint Thomas kept hold of the pink jersey.
Remco Evenepoel’s withdrawal from the Giro d’Italia has fuelled suggestions he could make a shock appearance at the Tour de France this summer – but Eurosport expert Philippe Gilbert has urged the Belgian to ignore those calls. Evenepoel quit the Giro on Sunday following a positive Covid test, just hours after he grabbed the maglia rosa with victory on Stage 9’s individual time trial. Ad It is rare for GC riders to target the Giro and Tour in the same season, but Evenepoel’s early departure from Italy raises the possibility of him shifting his focus to the Tour, which begins in Bilbao on July 1.
Ireland's Eddie Dunbar remains in the hunt for his stated target of a top 10 finish at the Giro d'Italia after Tuesday's tenth stage.
For the second time in this Giro d’Italia, a powerful Danish sprinter completed a clean-sweep of Grand Tour stage wins after Magnus Cort (EF Education-EastPost) followed in the footsteps of compatriot Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) in Stage 10 at Viareggio. Cort got the better of fellow escapees Derek Gee (Israel-PremierTech) of Canada and the Italian veteran Alessandro De Marchi (Team Jayco-AlUla) to take an historic win on a day where heavy rain and sub-zero temperatures threatened to see the race neutralised.