the question. thank you very much. mark cavendish s team, astana-qazaqstan, have offered him the chance to ride the tour de france next year, and possibly break the record for number of stage victories at the race, even though he plans to retire at the end of this season. the 38 year old returned from hospital to the team hotel to say goodbye to his team mates after a broken collarbone suffered during saturday s stage 8 ruled him out of the rest of this year s tour. he ll fly home to have surgery with his team manager telling l equipe, we want mark to go on to 2024 and race his 15th tour de france to win his 35th stage. england need 80, australia need four more wickets. for more on these and other sports stories, you can go to our website.
djokovic said he d had a negative lateral flow test on december the 16th and did a pcr for confirmation and didn t know he had the virus when he visited a children s tennis event the following day. he admitted that he shouldn t have gone ahead with an interview and photoshoot with a french sports newspaper two days later. our tennis correspondent russell fuller has more. there is some clarity in that he s admitting what is a breach of serbia s covid regulations by leaving his house to go to this tennis centre in belgrade to conduct this interview and photo shoot with l equipe. the mask was on for the interview, but he took it off for the photo shoot. he knew he was infectious with covid. the other part of the story, which is probably more emotive, given he was mixing with children and posing for photographs at an awards ceremony the previous day. he says he was not aware he was positive, although the positive test was confirmed at eight o clock
on the 18th, french newspaper l equipe reports it did a photoshoot with djokovic in belgrade. and as bbc reality check reports: djokovic was tested in serbia where you are required to isolate for 14 days following a positive test. djokovic didn t do that. nor has he addressed why not. and remember when his family were asked. ok, so, this press conference is adjourned at the moment. in the middle of all of this, we don t know if djokovic is planning on missing the australian open if he didn t get covid in december. while we pour over these unknowns, the judges ruling on monday left the australian government with a choice. let him stay, despite not appearing to meet rules that australians have to meet rules that australians have to follow or deport them world s tennis number one, barring him from the country for years after he appears to have done what was asked of him.