Biniam Girmay gives up with hip injury after double crash on slippery road surface: “It doesn’t really look great”

Not one, but two sliders in quick succession. Biniam Girmay did not have his most pleasant ride in the Giro. The Eritrean tried to continue cycling after his first fall – and a short patch up with ice packs – but again he came into contact with the slippery road. With his battered body, a retirement in the Giro is the only logical consequence. “Hopefully the damage isn’t too bad,” his team said.

Biniam Girmay and the Giro, it’s a marriage that just won’t work out. The Eritrean won a stage on his debut in 2022, but during the podium ceremony the cork of his champagne bottle shot into his eye.

An assignment followed the next day and this year Girmay wanted to polish his reputation in Italy after a mediocre spring.

Yesterday he came 3rd, so today his Italian trek is already over after a double belly slide on the Italian brown soap.

“He’s having huge bad luck again, of course,” his team leader Steven De Neef is also disappointed.

“He came to the Giro to take the points jersey. He also wanted to grow here towards the Tour. Now it is just a gloomy scenario.”

He might be out for a few weeks.

Steven De Neef

After giving up, Girmay was taken to hospital, where an MRI of his hip is planned.

“It doesn’t really look great, but that’s all I can say yet,” shares the man from Intermarché-Wanty. “Hopefully it’s just a muscle tear or a major strain.”

“But it could also be that he is out for a few weeks. A shame, because “Bini” remains our spearhead,” De Neef concludes.

In the evening there was another communiqué from the team with “reassuring news”. “In the coming days we will know the detailed results of the examinations,” said the team doctor.

“Biniam is now united with the team and can count on the moral support of all his teammates and staff to recover.”