All 22 teams will start the 10th stage of the Tour de France after their riders tested negative for COVID-19, organisers said on Tuesday, adding that four members of staff had returned positive tests.
French health authorities and organisers Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) had said that should two members of a team, riders or staff, test positive for the novel coronavirus, the whole outfit would be excluded from the race.
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But the organisers said that those testing positive were from different teams, meaning all could line up for the stage’s 1130 GMT start.
The organisers also said race director Christian Prudhomme had tested positive.
All team members, riders and staff had until 1100 GMT on Monday, the Tour’s first rest day, to take a test in the mobile laboratory provided by organisers.
Four staff members of the Lotto Soudal team left the Tour two days before the start after two of them returned positive tests for COVID-19.
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