Fernando Gaviria Out of the Giro d’Italia After Positive COVID-19 Test
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Fernando Gaviria of Team UAE Emirates has pulled out of the Giro d’Italia after a positive COVID-19 test.
No one else on the UAE Emirates team tested positive.
This is Gaviria’s second time testing positive for the virus.
Colombian sprinter Fernando Gaviria has tested positive for COVID-19 at the Giro d’Italia and has withdrawn from the race, his UAE Emirates team announced on Tuesday.
Gaviria has tested positive before, in February’s UAE Tour.
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“Gaviria went straight into isolation after the test result. He feels fine and is completely asymptomatic,” reported his team.
Gaviria was tested for coronavirus, along with the rest of the peloton, in the race’s second round of testing on Monday, the second rest day.
The UAE Emirates team was keen to stress that his was the only positive case amongst the team.
“All the other riders and staff members returned negative tests and will have other tests today,” the team said.
Cycling’s governing body, the UCI, revealed another positive test from Monday’s batch of 492 tests—an AG2R La Mondiale employee.
Gaviria, who pulled out before Tuesday’s Stage 16, placed 126th out of 138 in the general classification, almost three and a half hours behind leader Joao Almeida.
In the first round of testing at the Giro, the virus was detected in riders Steven Kruijswijk and Australian Michael Matthews, along with six team personnel. The day after the first tests, two teams quit the race: Kruijswijk’s Jumbo-Visma team and Michelton-Scott, whose leader Simon Yates dropped out after developing minor symptoms.
This year’s rescheduled Giro finishes in Milan on Sunday.
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