The head of a French cycling team quarantined in Abu Dhabi since last week's aborted UAE Tour said on Tuesday riders felt like victims of a "hostage-taking".
Most of the 20 teams who took part in last week's UAE Tour, cut short after two Italian officials tested positive for the coronavirus, have been allowed to leave Abu Dhabi.
But three teams, Cofidis and Groupama-FDJ of France and Russian outfit Gazprom, have been held in quarantine on one floor of their Abu Dhabi hotel since the race ended Thursday.
A fourth team, UAE Emirates, has opted to stay behind voluntarily. Thierry Vittu, the Cofidis president who is with the team in the hotel, said it was like a "hostage-taking".
"We are being held against our will at a place which is not of our choosing and for an unknown period of time," he said on Facebook.
"That last part is the worst to deal with."
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