The plug in Girmay’s eye is the latest episode, but the list of strange accidents for sportsmen is very long: crashes on the rocks, self-inflicted rackets, dentures in the lower parts and sprained necks crossing the road are just a few.
It can happen to anyone, of course. We are all Fantozzi, we leave for Pinerolo getting on the bike at the Bersagliera, but the saddle is blown and the tube that supports it is a painful sentence. Biniam Girmay who injured his eye celebrating on the podium with the bottle of sparkling wine – cursed was the cork – and who was forced to retire from the Giro d’Italia confirms that the mocking destiny is a panther crouching in the shadow: as soon as we get distracted, it jumps out and gives us a deadly claw. Girmay console himself: he is not the only one, but he is only the last to enter the small circle of sportsmen who have been injured in the strangest, most absurd, most unpredictable way.