Maxim van Gils' second Tour de France experience is over after 15 stages. The 24-year-old Belgian of Lotto Dstny has abandoned the Grand Tour on the second rest day after testing positive for Covid.
"Unfortunately Maxim Van Gils has to leave this Tour de France, after having tested Covid positive," writes the Lotto Dstny team in an official announcement via their social media pages this Monday afternoon. "Van Gils woke up with very mild symptoms this morning. We wish him a speedy recovery!"
The coronavirus has made a very unwelcome return to the professional peloton at the 2024 Tour de France, with a number of big name riders such as former Alpe d'Huez stage winner Tom Pidcock, one of Tadej Pogacar's key mountain domestiques Juan Ayuso and Mark Cavendish's Astana Qazaqstan Team leadout supremo, Michael Morkov all being forced to abandon the race over the first two weeks of racing.
There are reports of a number of riders continuing on in the peloton despite having tested positive however. Pidcock's INEOS Grenadiers teammate, Geraint Thomas has also been battling Covid over the past few days but the former Maillot Jaune winner continues on regardless, with a number of other riders reportedly in a similar situation, but no so forthcoming as to admit they are Covid positive via the press.
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