Tour de France 2020: Lukas Pöstlberger abandons after being stung in the mouth by a bee  

The Bora-Hansgrohe rider pulled out early on stage 19 after the incident 

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Lukas Pöstlberger has been forced to pull out of the Tour de France 2020 three days from Paris, after he was stung in the mouth by a bee. 

The Bora-Hansgrohe rider was stung in the early kilometres of stage 19 of the Tour, as riders tried to forced a breakaway on the road from Bourg-en-Bresse to Champagnole.

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