Bex Baraona & Chloe Taylor Test Positive for Covid-19, Will Miss Final EWS Rounds
Photos of Bex Baraona by Niklas Wallner
Bex Baraona (Ibis Enduro Team) and Chloe Taylor (Privateer/Hunt Wheels) are the first Enduro World Series riders to confirm a positive Covid-19 test. They will be missing the final two rounds of the Enduro World Series in Italy.
 | Earlier this week, Bex Baraona tested positive for Covid-19. She had been experiencing flu like symptoms and extreme fatigue, which prompted her to get tested. She is currently in quarantine with Chloe Taylor, whom she was traveling with, and who has also tested positive. Bex is in good spirits and feeling better by the day. She will continue to monitor her condition closely and looks forward to making a full recovery. Unfortunately, due to her diagnosis, she will be skipping the final rounds of the 2020 EWS season in Pietra Ligure and Finale Ligure. She is gutted to be missing these races and the opportunity to be with her EWS family. Robin Wallner, Cole Lucas, and the Ibis Enduro Team support staff have tested negative for Covid-19. They are currently in Finale, in preparation for the race this weekend. |
| I’m gutted to be sitting out of the last 2 EWS races but right now my health and protecting others is more important. 2020 has been a write-off and it is irritating to be sitting out of the only racing that is happening for us but it is out of my hands now that I am positive for COVID-19. I want people to act responsibly and with caution because even after taking all precaution and treating the virus seriously, I’m sitting here in quarantine recovering from it. Good luck to all the racers this weekend, stay safe and be sensible! For more info on my first hand experience contracting COVID-19/displaying symptoms- head over to my instagram (@bex_baraona) over the next few days. |
Photo of Chloe Taylor by Duncan Philpott
| Really gutted to not be able to finish the season after contacting COVID-19. We were the unlucky ones, even after taking every precaution and following local guidelines. It’s no surprise it’s such a global issue after I had mild symptoms and not even a high temperature. I’d urge everyone to take an unwell feeling extremely seriously for the safety of others. It can be a difficult decision to make and whilst out here to race bikes, it can be hard to stop the fun but I am glad we made the right call. Time to recover and get back to full health... Let's hope for better circumstances in 2021. |
We wish them both a quick recovery.
The Ibis Enduro Team was ranked first after EWS Zermatt with Robin Wallner and Bex Baraona both finising 6th, Cole Lucas finishing 14th and Louisde Margareta Paulin winning the Women Masters category.
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"Most" cases aren't severe? Possible.. I'm not really big on virology.
Might be better to provide empirical evidence (or any) instead of blanket statements, tho.
No matter. Would just be nice if one thought about the accessory effects. For example: my friend who has cancer (immunocompromised) and a family. Or my mother in law (70s) who helps us take care of our kids.
To be fair I took your comment out of a few possible contexts.
Take Italy as an example: despite thousands of people testing positive due to continuous testing, most of them are actually either asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic. The proof is that, since June, at any given moment, we haven’t had more than 50 people in intensive care throughout the whole country. Despite these numbers, people keep freaking out because, somewhere along the way, they got convinced that asymptomatic carriers = Covid cases
Not being a scientist doing research in your country may have influenced my ability to have numbers on hand (I /may/ I have other things that are more important), but I guess that's my fault. Yes, I know I can google things. Moving on..
It's really great, that in your country, things are getting better. The argument about symptomatic vs. asymptomatic carriers was far... In fact incredibly far, from anything that I posted, but ok..
If you were to (maybe a bit more carefully this time) read my reply to the original post, you might understand what I was trying to say.
In any case, excavator666 made a simple statement about the two girls being fine which you contested saying that he has no title to say so. I was simply trying to say that, based on actual numbers, excavator666 is probably correct and expanded on why that is by describing today’s situation in the country I live in. This is why I don’t think my reply was off topic
God of cardio in our riding group got it and is absolutely f#*%ed.
Hoping these ladies come through with mild cases and no long term consequences. Be safe.
Get well soon, gals!
No, he doesn’t get a pass. Ever.
Bye Don
Move along... Nothing needs signalling here...
Perhaps it is people who don't want politics coming into PB. But, shit, there the racing season is F'd, there are issues getting bikes and parts, and I went extended periods where riding with anyone was a potential issue. So to some degree, it is relevant.
My understanding of the flu vaccine is that is effectiveness varies from year to year and is someone of a guess on the various strains of flu out there.
Is the virulence or fatality rate of the flu on par with the COVID 19 virus? Does the flu cause long term health issues in otherwise healthy individuals?
Be it Bush or Blair, Merkel or Macron, Donny or Barry, Boris or Vlad...
Show me one who has ever been completely honest about anything they have pushed or promoted on their people...
Answers on a postcard...
Bye Don could yet turn into Welcome back Don.
None of the others have the same genuine Bond villain quality...
We are in an age of the Kakistocracy.
Memory holes & double-speak... The Party must prevail.
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength.
The thing I find most frustrating about being the leader of a family is that everyone looks to me for leadership, but if they don’t like the road I’m leading us down they will let me know about it. Now take that and multiply it by 25 million and that’s what Boris is dealing with. It certainly takes a “special” character to desire such a position.
Damn, your comment really proves how dumb most Americans are...
The American way, blame everything on the President whether he be right or left, blue or red, and moan about shit you dont understand. What so many Americans, United States humans dont understand, is the simple fact of "population."
Take New Zealand - Small Country, Small population, a virus has less effective range of travel and interaction between gathering and groups of individuals, the NZ population is just over 4.8m people - that is literally one of the 50 something states in the USA. So it has been easier to control, by forcing restrictions and stopping the movement or human interaction.
The USA, Large population, Large Country, greater gatherings and groups of people in clustered areas, 320something million people. A virus is more likely to spread quickly due to the human connection and a greater population amount - simple common sense and proven facts.
Oh and another thing, the Corona Virus, Covid-19 or whateved the F@k they call it now is a virus that is constantly changing and getting worse, it adapts to its enviroment and thrives because nothing has been able to stop it, kinda like cancer cells, once they catch onto a source/host/carrier they grow to the point that nothing can stop them. Covid-19 is simply put: "an impossible virus" to control because it is always changing and adapting to its enviroment.
But like most Americans - who don't do their research, moan about their President and live inside a bubble. NEWS FLASH: TRUMP WINS 2020.
Dayumn I wish you Liberals could grow a pair of balls and man the F@k up to reality outside of your leftist echo chambers.
Pick one.
Is Covid-19 all Trump's fault? No not by a long shot, but when you have the "leader of the free world" coming on air and saying the director fo the CDC must be confused and must not understand the facts, that could be a problem. If you lived here you would see by a large margin that Trump supporters do not wear mask or do not believe the virus is a serious problem and those evil liberals are the cause of Covid-19. You know it's just a hoax, because the evil liberals caused it in the whole world too. This is the backwards thinking that causes issues.
The fact is the Covid-19 virus is not an "impossible virus". It can be controlled if the citizens of a country pull together instead of apart. Taiwan so close to China by all accounts should be ravaged by the virus. Are they? Nope. It's because they take things like this seriously. It's not a conservative or liberal thing. We in the US have made it that way because our president has made it that way. If we had a president that was an actual leader regardless of personal faults, then we would pull together in a somewhat better fashion than we have now.
Closing in on 6 million cases and over 200,000 deaths is not what I would want to be leading the world in. You know since we are the best at everything.
Do they not have "large gatherings and groups of people in clustered areas?"
On a percentage basis, are they anywhere near the amount of cases and deaths as US?
And Trump is not conservative / republican...he is inept. There are a growing number of republicans have grown a pair of balls and have broken from the party. I would take 8 years of Mitt Romney over Trump. So it really isn't about left or right politics.
Wow,,,your post was a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
@ReformedRoadie in my opinion the big reason why America in particular has failed to control the virus is because Americans value freedom of choice. In Asia, people are less selfish and more likely to do as they're told. In China, you can't leave your house if the authorities have been around and welded the door shut. In Taiwan, not catching Covid is ranking number one in the public's opinion of what is important in life. It's an interesing one because they don't seem to care as much about how many people are getting killed and maimed in road accidents on a daily basis. The piss poor standard of driving in Taiwan has been a problem for at least 20 years - probably since the first automobile was imported. It's curious to me that there is no public appetite to fix the problem - then Covid turns up and the TW response has been an example to the world, literally.
In the UK the government's response has also been pretty shite, but at the end of the day if I have the choice between the cops coming and gluing my doors and windown shut so I can't get out of the house until they tell me I am allowed, and taking my chances on maybe catching Covid and if I do, probably not dying, then I will take the latter. People who blame Boris Johnson for not forcing people to stay indoors (except for the BLM protests - Covid had a day off that weekend) would also be screaming bloody murder if he nailed everyone's doors shut. They literally decide if they like the leader or not and if not, everything he or she does is wrong.
Ok then, know it all American, like you all are, full of yourselves and often the loud mouthed dipshit who tells everyone else he's right before actually using their brain and doing proper research... if it isnt an impossible virus, why is it still a major issue, why hasnt a cure been found. Viruses such as swine flu, bird flu, etc. Have almost disappeared, we hear nothing about them, was a cure a found? how have those been able to be controlled...
The reason why covid-19 is considered an impossible virus is due to that very fact, "it is ever changing and adapting to its enviroment," since the first outbreak there have been several different versions of covid-19..
Mitt Romney is a RHINO a poor excuse for a republican, he needs to shift parties to where he belongs, sucking off Nancy Pelosi's tit.
Australia's population is alot smaller than its land mass, so it is therefore Spread out across it states with the larger population being found in the cities. The Federal government has put responsibility onto the state run governments for Covid-19 related issues, states that didn't need to lockdown didnt and so on, based on how active the virus has been in each state. Various restrictions were put in place, traveling within a certain distance of your home. And only purchasing of essentials very similar to what New Zealand is doing now, controlling the virus by region.
Trump did however give this responsibility to each state owned government, but every single f@king democratic state governor and government decided to play politics and point the blame at the President for their incompetence, for example New York and California, Minnesota... the list goes on.
SPOILER ALERT: TRUMP WINS 2020.
now go have a cry.
it's super obvious that the only propaganda here is coming from you.
Why don't you go suck each others cocks, since you're soo agreeable with each other.
Dipshits.
Why Don't you blame HIV on just about every President since the 80s then... since your real good at blaming Presidents for every single issue you Americans stumble upon...
I'm not upset, I'm just confused that you are on Pinkbike rather than FaceBook.. because facebook is where dipshits who spread propaganda should be, i'm just calling them out. I thought pinkbike was biking related? Not politics?
But you are the one those same users who pop up in just about every comment on Pink Bike that is soo political about everything... are you frustrated and unsatisfied with your life that you have to perpetrate your crap onto just about every free-thinking person? Huh?
Oh btw, if your are still subscribing to the leftist media and politics and you still think liberally and rather than practically and logically in these times, thats completely upto you, but it is quite stupid to be honest in my humble opinion...
Wow, just wow, a raging leftist with some cheek... not surprised.. Would like to meet you face to face, nah actually I wouldn't... cause you'd probably end up calling me a nazi or a racist or bigot or whatever the F@k you leftists call free-thinking people who dont agree with you...
Ohh you're Californian, right yes, I have been wasting my time.. the Californian bubble is truly hard to burst nowadays (though there are some really great californians I know).. speaking of mental health, its currently 4:53am in California right now, either you don't sleep, you start work early - actually no... leftists don't work - or you've been up real late rioting and just got back home to your abode under the overpass.
Have a good life dude...
Looks like that kook got banned again
HAHAHA who am I kidding?!?!
Also cuban b, not surprisingly you're here. Smokes gone dude, go ride.
I was banned for trolling and casual racism. The trolling is whatever and not here to argue that . The casual racism, was because of the above as noted in a private message from Pinkbike.
If they're going to slap me with trolling because they think we need to cool off, whatever. But to label me being "casually racist" because of that comment is pretty comical imo.
It's just really weirdly interesting that these 'celebrities' in Sports and Entertainment have "tested positive for Covid-19." Its now getting beyond a joke. Covid-19 isnt a joke, it's a chinese BIO WEAPON aimed at a confused western society who have tripped themselves up over identity politics and political correctness...
F@K Covid-19!
*i'll show myself out*
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If you can’t read, you really shouldn’t be part of the conversation.
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