After the ceremony, Girmay could no longer see,” team doctor Piet Daneels of Intermarché-Wanty Gobert told the Belgian sporza† “We went straight to Jesi’s hospital. There they found a hemorrhage in his anterior chamber. Such bleeding is not threatening to the eye itself. After a night’s rest we have to decide whether he can start. We have to be careful. As it stands, I don’t think there is any permanent damage. But we’ll have to wait and see.”
It also went wrong at Van der Poel on the opening day. The Alpecin-Fenix rider also got the champagne cork against his face.
Watch the moment Girmay shoots the cork in his own eye below:
Source† Discovery +
Just before the ceremony, Girmay was still looking for words to describe his stage victory. “Unbelievable,” said the Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert driver after referring Mathieu van der Poel to second place. Van der Poel reacted sporty and raised his thumb. A moment later he went to Girmay to congratulate him.
“Our team has checked the tenth stage,” said Girmay after a ride over 196 kilometers from Pescara to Jesi. “I have no words for what the team has done for me. I was helped by three teammates in the final and Domenico Pozzovivo led the sprint for me.”
Source† Discovery +
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