Biniam Girmay made history by winning a stage at the Giro d'Italia – and then being forced to withdraw after an eye-popping celebration.
The Eritrean rider's joy at becoming the first black African to win a stage of a Grand Tour in Jesi on Tuesday was sadly short-lived when he was struck in the eye by the cork from a Prosecco bottle during celebrations on the podium.
Girmay, 22, spent three hours in hospital receiving treatment for his unique sporting injury before he was well enough to join up with his Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert Materieaux team-mates for dinner at their hotel later in the evening.
