At the end of a third stage perfectly controlled by the sprinting teams, the Eritrean Biniam Girmay won the sprint, this Monday July 1, in Turin.
Eritrean Biniam Girmay won the third stage of the Tour de France in a sprint on Monday in Turin, where Richard Carapaz became the first Ecuadorian to take the yellow jersey.
The Intermarché rider, who gave the Belgian team its first victory on the Tour, is the third African to win the Grande Boucle after the South Africans Daryl Impey and Rob Hunter.
He won ahead of the Colombian Fernando Gaviria and the Belgian Arnaud De Lie in a chaotic final with a major collective fall just over two kilometers from the finish.
#TDF2024 | \ud83d\udd25 BINIAM GIRNAY WINS THE SPRINT IN THIS THIRD STAGE!!
\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf7 He is the first Eritrean to win a stage in the Tour de France. Simply historic \ud83e\udd29 pic.twitter.com/lae18yYum3
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Tadej Pogacar loses his yellow jersey
This big crash, in which the big favourite for the sprint Jasper Philipsen was notably involved, created a gap in the peloton. Without direct consequences in normal times for the general classification, since the times are frozen in the last three (five on Monday) kilometres in the event of a fall or mechanical incident, this gap still caused the loss of the yellow jersey for Tadej Pogacar, who did not fall but was delayed.
It is Carapaz who, in the accumulation of the best places of the stage, takes the yellow, knowing that there are still four of them in the same second with, in addition to the Ecuadorian and the Slovenian, the Belgian Remco Evenepoel and the Dane Jonas Vingegaard.
Historic for Carapaz, the stage was also historic for Girmay who, at 24, wrote a new important page for African cycling, two years after his stage victory in the Giro d’Italia.
