Biniam Girmay’s second stage win in the 2024 Tour de France in Charles de Gaulle’s home village of Colombey-les-Deux-Églises was overshadowed by the death of the 25-year-old Norwegian André Drege during stage four of the Tour of Austria.
As Girmay, the first black African to win a stage in the Tour, celebrated his success, the news of Drege’s death sent shock waves through the peloton, coming about a year after Gino Mäder died in similar circumstances during the 2023 Tour of Switzerland.
