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Peter Sagan (via Team TotalEnergies on Twitter)Peter Sagan tests positive for COVID-19 for second time in less than a year
Peter Sagan, who has just joined Team TotalEnergies after five seasons at Bora-Hansgrohe, has tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time. In less than a year.
The three-time world champion revealed in a post on Twitter that he and brother Juraj, who has also switched to the French WorldTeam, are now self-isolating.
He wrote: “My brother Juraj and I took Covid-19 tests which, unfortunately, came out positive. We have symptoms related to the virus and we are following the corresponding guidance set by the relevant authorities. I’ll keep you posted.”
My brother Juraj and I took Covid-19 tests which, unfortunately, came out positive. We have symptoms related to the virus and we are following the corresponding guidance set by the relevant authorities. I'll keep you posted.
— Peter Sagan (@petosagan) January 4, 2022
Sagan, who previously tested positive for COVID-19 in February last year during a training camp on Gran Canaria, had been due to make his Team Total Energies debut later this month at the Vuelta a San Juan.
> Peter Sagan tests positive for Covid-19 during Gran Canaria training camp
Irrespective of the disruption to his preparations for the new season caused by his positive test, however, his first start for his new team will be delayed in any event, with organisers of the Argentine race deciding this week to exclude foreign teams due to the Omicron variant.
In November, the 31 year old was fined €5,000 by a court in Monaco after infringing a COVID-19 curfew last April as well as injuring a police officer as he struggled with them, apparently afraid he would be “forced to be vaccinated.”
> Peter Sagan fined for breaking Monaco COVID-19 curfew and injuring police officer
He admitted in court that he was drunk when police stopped him and his brother at around 0030 hours on 25 April.
He was reported to have “struggled like a mad person” as police tried to take him into custody, with one officer sustaining an injury to their hand.
However, Sagan’s lawyers said that he had resisted arrest because he was afraid that he would be “forced to be vaccinated.”
The Slovakian rider spent the night in custody and said afterwards that he could not remember what had happened.
He also issued an apology, blaming the incident on having drunk too much, something he said he was not used to.
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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While much of this thread has developed into areas like vaccine efficacy etc, I doubt that this is informing Sagan's decision to get vaccinated or not. I can't claim to have much knowledge of Slovakian attitudes to vaccines, but a quick Google suggests that no more than half the population has taken up vaccines.
Maybe he is just reflecting the attitudes of his background?
Djokovic and Serbia are an interesting parallel. Both in the sportsman and vaccination rates.
All I know is being triple jabbed doesn't stop you getting covid !
However, Sagan’s lawyers said that he had resisted arrest because he was afraid that he would be “forced to be vaccinated.”
Is that how it works in Monaco? Do the police trawl the streets at night abducting people to vaccinate them?
It does also say that he was a little "tired and emotional" (as I believe Private Eye still refers to it...).
That great line from Yes Minister when Jim Hacker is found drunk by the press (from memory so forgive inaccuracies):
"What does the Mail say?"
"They say you were tired and emotional, minister."
"Well, that's not too bad."
"Um, actually it says you were tired and emotional as a newt, minister."
Yes, it's on express orders from the Duke of Edinburgh.
Oh you don't think he actually died do you?....
Didn't he move to Hong Kong...?
He's off-world at the moment
I've not checked in with David Icke in a while so I'll have to take your word for it.
Another idiot entitled sportsman too egotistical to get vaccinated?
Maybe he should check the stats on getting Long Covid?
Maybe there's room in the Aus Airport lock up with Djokovic?
Yep - forgiven him plenty of stupidity in the past but this is a bridge too far. Wonder how fellow pros feel about riding in a peleton with unvaxxed riders breathing over them for hours on end?
Funny isn't it. I'm not exactly sanguine about covid, but have a good hunch that in spite of asthma would be one of the 99%.
Of course I'm not selfish enough to assume that all I come into contact with (or their loved ones) are able to have such a bullish outlook.
So that's my key motivation to getting jabbed and wearing a mask in public places. The added % protection to myself is gravy.
Is this what "individual responsibility" looks like?.....
It's all that TB that you go about spreading that I'm worried about. Although others say that having Mad Human disease is more of a risk. But that don't bother me because I'm a cow.
Didn't do it and you can't prove it.
It's the mice you want to look at. When they're having fun in the feed barn, and then go to the loo. D'you think they wash their paws afterwards? Really?
I will report this to the mods for peddling false information - there is very good evidence that 3 jabs are protective vs omicron as opposed to being unvaccinated.
I say your statement is a lie. Provide peer reviewed evidence that there is little to no difference in terms of infection or spread whether you are vaccinated or not or be known as a liar.
So you are a liar.
I asked for peer reviwed evidence and you have provided none to back up your assertion.
Liar
The link you posted isn't to a peer reviewed paper
The paper it refers to isn't peer reviewed: "The work, which is not yet peer-reviewed, is presented in the latest report from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Modelling within the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Jameel Institute, Imperial College London."
We know you need help; would you like some learning to read?
Don't bother with him. We know he lies. Let him lie to himself that people are actually interested in him and just ignore him.
Rich_cb is worth debating though.
There is evidence that two vaccinations provide little to no difference in contagion.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/232698/omicron-largely-evades-immunity-f...
The Confidence Interval for vaccine effectiveness includes 0% so it's possible that two vaccines afford no protection whatsoever against infection.
Given the lack of antibody effectiveness I imagine the same will be true of booster jabs after a few months.
Contagion is harder to guage and there's no evidence about that yet AFAIK but given how transmissible Omicron is I'd be surprised if it was possible to have it and not be contagious.
Isn't the evidence that having vaccinations, and then the boosters is better for you (at least before the milder Omnicron) shown in the differences between Hospitalisations and deaths in the different age ranges last year and this year?
I think for the Delta and previous variants that was definitely true.
Unfortunately Omicron is so different that the antibodies produced by vaccination are largely ineffective. You rely on cellular immunity which fades quite quickly.
Why aren't you Prime Minister, Rich? You already fancy yourself as an expert economist and political scientist, and now you are apparently an expert epidemiologist. I'm sure your wall is covered in academic qualifications to back up your pontifications. You don't appear to be interested in cycling at all, but nobody's perfect…
I'd resist your urges to bite rich_cb - he has contributed some knowledge from cycling in Wales, he's definitely got a different perspective to many here, he's optimistic about the future and he likes a graph / numbers. These are all things I think are valuable - even if I may not agree with where he puts his emphasis or all his predictions.
If the facts are incorrect or incomplete then that's a great excuse to dig further and come up with some really good information. If logic is faulty then it's also a challenge but an explanatory one - and persuading people is a whole 'nuther game!
Perhaps if he stopped calling me "a nasty little troll" when I dare to contradict him, and stopped turning virtually every discussion into a diatribe about how bloody marvellous Brexit is, I would consider it.
Provide some examples of me turning a discussion into a "diatribe about how bloody marvellous Brexit is" and I'll consider not calling you a troll.
Making completely unfounded inflammatory accusations is a form of trolling after all.
You've literally been doing it today, do you not read what you write?
I didn't turn the discussion towards Brexit. Other people were discussing Brexit and I joined in.
Am I not allowed to take part in discussions if my opinions differ from yours?
Still waiting for some examples of me turning a discussion towards Brexit. Continuing to make that claim whilst providing no evidence is not doing your "I'm not a troll" argument any favours at all.
I can provide evidence of other people doing so if you'd like to know what it looks like.
It it better to link to the paper rather than the new article promoting it.
The paper does not claim what you say.
Remember Nigel the Liar stated "With Omicron there is little to no difference in terms of infection or spread whether you're vaccinated or not"
Yes it does.
I link to the article because the salient points are presented in an easy to read format.
Here's the bit of the paper that demonstrates little to no difference in infection after 2 doses.
Edit: I don't think it's actually a confidence interval as I originally stated, it's a range of potential effectiveness based on different calculations. The Confidence Interval was for natural immunity (0-27%).
But the assertion that vaccination (x2) provides little to no protection is still valid.
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