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Edvald Boasson Hagen's Tour de France in doubt after shingles diagnosis

Signs of condition evident yesterday as he rode to 5th succesive Norwegian time trial title, says manager

Edvald Boasson Hagen, named yesterday in Team Sky's line-up for the Tour de France which starts a week tomorrow, is said to be doubtful for the race after contracting shingles. According to local news reports in Norway, the 24-year-old was already showing signs of a rash when he successfully defended his national time trial title yesterday, the fifth time in a row he has won it, and he has pulled out of this weekend's national road race championship as a precaution.

The news was broken this afternoon in a press release from his manager Birger Hungerholdt after Boasson Hagen visited a doctor and was diagnosed with the condition, reports Aftenposten.

Shingles is an infectious condition related to chickenpox and symptons include rashes, blistering of the skin, swollen lymph glands and resultant pain and discomfort.

Boasson Hagen joined Team Sky last year from HTC-Columbia with his debut season for the British outfit disrupted by an Achiles injury, although he returned from that in time to race in the Tour de France.

A spokesman from Team Sky told road.cc: "As a precautionary measure, Edvald has withdrawn from the national road race this weekend due to illness. We are monitoring the situation with him, at this stage though there is no change to the Tour de France team."

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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TERatcliffe26 | 12 years ago
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gonna mess up my TdF team, but in all seriousness hope he is fit and well soon, and in time for the TdF as he was impressive at the DL

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chrisc | 12 years ago
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Poor old eddy, not much luck at all.

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simoncon | 12 years ago
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not nice

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