Following guidelines issued by the health authorities, the move was announced Saturday by Tour organizers just a few hours before the start of the three-week race's opening stage in the Riviera city of Nice. “From two positive cases in a group of 30, there is a real risk of elimination of a team,” Tour director Christian Prudhomme told France Info radio. This week, four staff members of the Belgian team Lotto-Soudal were sent home after “non-negative” coronavirus tests. The measure is aimed at avoiding false positive tests that could rule out healthy riders. Tour organizers have set up a mobile coronavirus lab that can produce results in two hours and handle 50 tests a day on race days.

Source: Fox News August 29, 2020 09:11 UTC