Thomas Siniecki, Media365: published on Thursday June 27, 2024 at 8:36 p.m.
If the Slovenian does not (or no longer) have an illness, no pun intended, this is not the case for everyone.
Tadej Pogacar contracted Covid around ten days ago. It was better that it was at that moment than during one of the three weeks to come, those of the Tour de France of course… The Slovenian, very enthusiastic and reassuring, now says he is “in great shape”: “The Covid is much less serious than four years ago, my body has already been infected and it knows what it is, so it was like a cold I was completely knocked out for a day, I rode at. the house and then I came out after a few days.” The Slovenian, who has not appeared since his demonstration at the Tour of Italy last month, explained that he had spent a lot of time with his partner and had “trained a lot”: “Unfortunately, my grandfather is died, I had to return to Slovenia to be close to my family.”
Evenepoel wants to “just be careful, as we are going to meet lots of people”
As for Covid, this damn virus will definitely never leave the peloton, even if there are no more health protocols and required checks. However, last year at the Giro, Remco Evenepoel’s positive test led to the Belgian’s withdrawal while he was leading the general classification, although there was no longer a mandatory exclusion. And there is nothing to say that he could not experience the same mishap in July on the roads of France, since the Visma – Lease a Bike team should repeat the same type of daily tests internally.
This is why Remco Evenepoel, who has been tipped as a potential main competitor to Tadej Pogacar, wore a mask on Thursday in Florence during the grand presentation of the event (and will probably wear one throughout the race): “I’m not sick, don’t worry, but I don’t want to relive the same thing as in the Giro and I just want to be careful, as we’re going to meet a lot of people in the next few hours.”
