The Eritrean, fourth, amazed for his first real Flandrian classic.
This Friday morning, as he climbed onto the riders’ presentation podium, he had opened his eyes wide to the large crowd that had gathered to watch the E3 Grand Prix. “Incredible”, he commented. Throughout the course, Biniam Girmay had also been impressed by this atypical race, his first real Flandrian race. But at the end of the race, it was all the observers who opened their eyes to the performance of the solid African runner, for his real discovery of the cobblestones.
