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Pogacar's Tour de France dominance challenged by COVID-19

(AP) — The coronavirus day after showing symptoms
could well be the biggest of the coronavirus, team doc- Majka is a strong climber and
threat to Tadej Pogacar's tor Adrian Rotunno said. it will be a big loss for Poga-
dominance at the Tour de "He . . . returned a posi- car if his domestique is even-
France. tive result," Rotunno said. tually forced to abandon as
"Therefore he will not start the peloton prepares to tackle
The two-time defending today." two daunting Alpine stages
champion from Slovenia has UAE-Emirates Team officials including a finish at L'Alpe
been the dominant rider of later announced that Rafal d'Huez on Thursday.
the peloton since the start of Majka also tested positive for Bennett was the second rid-
the race, but the coronavirus the virus but remained in the er from the UAE-Emirates
is playing havoc within his race. to leave the race because of
team. a positive test after Vegard
Pogacar lost another team- "Rafal Majka . . . returned a Stake Laengen last week.
mate on Tuesday when positive result this morning," Bennett was 32nd in the gen-
George Bennett was forced Rotunno said. "He is asymp- eral classification.
out before Stage 10 following tomatic and analyzing his
a positive coronavirus test. PCR found he had a very low His withdrawal was an- drawal of a rider on Tuesday lometer route on Tuesday
risk of infectivity." nounced a day after the UCI after Australia's Luke Dur- from Morzine to Megeve in
Bennett, a New Zealander The UAE-Emirates team said said no riders tested positive bridge tested positive before the Alps. Pogacar kept the
who rode in support of Po- it reported Majka's case to the for the virus during man- Stage 10. yellow jersey with an 11-sec-
gacar with the UAE-Emirates International Cycling Union datory testing of the entire "Durbridge has very mild ond overall lead over Lennard
team and was set to help him (UCI) medical team, which peloton before Monday. symptoms," the team said. Kämna. Jonas Vingegaard
through the mountains, was authorized the rider to start Team BikeExchange-Jayco was in third place, 39 seconds
tested on the rest day Mon- the stage. also announced the with- The peloton tackled a 148-ki- off the pace.

UK Olympic great Mo Farah says he was trafficked as a child

(AP) — Olympic great flimsy boats organized by hu- was to look after those kids the track and eventually told charge migrants thousands of
Mo Farah -- the winner of man traffickers who assist the — shower them, cook for his story to a physical educa- pounds to cross the Channel,
four gold medals and one desperate to cross the English them, clean for them." tion instructor. The teacher immigration rights groups
of Britain's greatest and Channel. Criminal gangs are contacted local officials, who say it is illegal and inhumane.
best-loved athletes -- has also smuggling people into Farah was granted U.K. citi- arranged for a Somali fam-
been carrying a secret bur- the country and forcing them zenship in 2000 and repre- ily to take him in as a foster But modern slavery doesn't
den all these years: He was into sex work, criminal activ- sented Britain at three straight child. only affect migrants. Non-
illegally brought to the ities and unpaid labor. Summer Olympics starting governmental organizations
U.K. as a youth and forced in 2008. He captured hearts Farah said he had feared are at pains to insist that vic-
to care for other children In the documentary, pro- in Britain and elsewhere with he would be deported if he tims of modern slavery are
before he escaped a life duced by the BBC and Red the look of joy and astonish- spoke about his childhood forced into servitude bound
of servitude through run- Bull Studios, Farah said he ment after his triumph in experiences. He decided to by coercion and violence
ning. thought he was going to Eu- the 5,000 meters at the 2012 tell his story to publicize and rather than shackles. Such
rope to live with relatives and London Games after earlier challenge people's percep- organizations have often
In a new documentary, Farah had piece of paper with the winning the 10,000-meter tions of human trafficking, found it difficult to put a hu-
says his real name is Hus- contact details. title. He won the same races he said. man face on the crime, fear-
sein Abdi Kahin and that he "The lady took it off me and at the 2016 Games in Rio de "I had no idea there was so ing that exposure will inflict
was from taken from the East right in front of me ripped Janeiro. many people who are go- further trauma. That alone
African nation of Djibouti them up and put it in the ing through exactly the same makes Farah's case unique.
when he was about 8 or 9. He bin,'' Farah said in the film, He was knighted by Queen thing that I did," he said. "It
says a woman he didn't know to be broadcast Wednesday. Elizabeth II in 2017. just shows how lucky I was." Justine Carter of Unseen, a
brought him to Britain using "And at that moment I knew charity that deals with victims
fake travel documents that I was in trouble." Farah previously said he had In 2020, more than 10,000 of modern slavery, stresses
included his picture along- The woman took him to an moved to Britain with his people were referred to au- that it takes courage to over-
side the name Mohammed apartment in west London parents as a refugee from So- thorities in Britain as poten- come such conditions. Far-
Farah. where he was forced to care malia. But in the documen- tial victims of modern slav- ah's revelation will let people
for her children, Farah said. tary, he says his parents never ery, up from 2,340 in 2014, around the world know that
The revelations come as Brit- He wasn't allowed to go to were in the U.K. His father according to the Home Of- modern slavery can happen
ain struggles to deal with a school until he was 12. was killed by gunfire during fice, the government agency anywhere.
surge of people fleeing con- "I wasn't treated as part of the unrest in Somalia when Farah responsible for border en-
flict and hunger in Africa, family," Farah said. "If I want- was 4, according to the film. forcement. Britain's Home Office said
the Middle East and Asia on ed food in my mouth, my job His mother and two brothers no action would be taken
live on the family farm in So- Immigration authorities are against Farah — and not just
maliland, a breakaway region also under pressure as the because he is a prominent
of Somalia that is not interna- number of people entering athlete.
tionally recognized. the country on small boats
jumped to 28,526 last year Home Office guidance
Farah says his fortunes from 299 in 2018, govern- makes clear that the agency
changed when he was finally ment statistics show. assumes a child is not com-
allowed to attend school. A The U.K. has struck a deal plicit in gaining citizenship
teacher who was interviewed with Rwanda to send some by deception, stating: "If the
for the documentary recalled asylum seekers on a one way person was a child at the time
a 12-year-old boy who ap- voyage to the East African the fraud, false representa-
peared "unkempt and un- nation, where they would tion or concealment of mate-
cared for," was "emotionally be able to apply for asylum. rial fact was perpetrated, the
and culturally alienated" and While Prime Minister Bo- caseworker should assume
spoke little English. ris Johnson says this will that they were not complicit
break the business model in any deception by their par-
But he began to blossom on of the criminal gangs who ent or guardian."