Illness is spreading through the Vuelta peloton, as has become clear. Several riders have fallen ill during the recent stages of the Spanish race, and Burgos-BH has confirmed that an illness is indeed circulating in the peloton, following the withdrawal of their rider, Daniel Cavia.<\/p>\n
On the morning of stage six, Lotto was the first to report a DNS for the day. The Belgian team, which rode a strong team time trial on Wednesday and finished tenth, unfortunately saw Arjen Livyns drop out. \u201cWe regret to announce that Arjen Livyns will not continue in the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a>,\u201d they said on X<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAfter yesterday’s team time trial, Arjen fell ill, and his condition did not improve overnight,\u201d the Belgian team continued. \u201cAfter careful consideration, our medical staff decided to withdraw him from the race for his own health and well-being. We wish Arjen a speedy and full recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n Read on below the tweet!<\/p>\n Carr and Reinderink also out due to illnessCofidis then announced the subsequent withdrawal. The French team reported that Simon Carr<\/a> would not start in the sixth stage to Andorra. \u201cAfter being ill for several days, Simon Carr will not start in the sixth stage. We wish Simon a speedy recovery,\u201d Cofidis announced via X<\/a>.Soudal Quick-Step then had another withdrawal to report. The Belgian team had already lost Valentin Paret-Peintre due to illness, and for the same reason, Pepijn Reinderink is unable to continue. ‘We will continue the Vuelta with six riders after Pepijn Reinderink was forced to withdraw due to illness. We wish you a speedy recovery, Pepijn,” Soudal Quick-Step announced on X<\/a>. We had seen the 23-year-old rider from Almelo in the breakaway in the opening stage.During the stage, Koen Bouwman<\/a> also abandoned the race on behalf of Jayco AlUla. The Dutchman had been riding at the back for several days. Afterwards, his Australian team announced that the two-time Giro stage winner had been struggling with stomach problems for a few days.<\/p>\n The next day, there were more withdrawals. Cristian Rodriguez (Ark\u00e9a – B&B Hotels) gave up after several days of illness, as did Burgos BH sprinter Daniel Cavia. \u201cSeveral riders have been infected with a virus that is affecting their performance,\u201d the Spanish team announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illness is spreading through the Vuelta peloton, as has become clear. Several riders have fallen ill during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-105796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}