- Mitchelton-Scott’s GC hopeful Yates tests positive for Covid-19
- Israel Start-Up Nation’s Dowsett solos to win from breakaway
Simon Yates was withdrawn from the Giro d’Italia before Saturday’s stage eight after testing positive for coronavirus. The 28-year-old Briton began to show mild symptoms after stage seven on Friday, his Mitchelton-Scott team said, and was subsequently tested, at the request of their medical team by RCS Sport, the race organisers. Yates has been isolated in his hotel room and will now enter a period of quarantine.
Later in the day fellow British rider Alex Dowsett, of Israel Start-Up Nation, soloed to victory in Vieste after being part of a six-man breakaway that was allowed to go free on the 200-kilometre route which began in Giovinazzo.
