It will not have escaped your attention that Biniam Girmay made history at the Tour de France on Monday’s stage three, by becoming the first black African to ever win a stage of the French Grand Tour. He was also the first Eritrean, and the first Intermarché-Wanty rider, to achieve the feat. The 24-year-old has a habit of making history.
He did the same at the Giro d’Italia in 2022, when he became the first black African to win a stage of that race, and of any Grand Tour. A couple of months earlier that year, he’d become the first black African to win a Classic, at Gent-Wevelgem. As I said, he has a track record as a history maker.
