Cycling-Cofidis' Martin out of Tour de France's ninth stage with COVID

FILE PHOTO: Cycling - Giro d'Italia - Stage 21 - Verona , Italy - May 29, 2022 Cofidis' Guillaume Martin reacts after his time trial REUTERS/Jennifer Lorenzini

(Reuters) - France's Guillaume Martin did not start stage nine of the Tour de France on Sunday after testing positive for COVID-19, a source at his team Cofidis told Reuters.

Martin's positive test comes a day after Geoffrey Bouchard and Vegard Stake Laengen became the first riders to pull out of the race with COVID-19.