Girmay gatecrashes ‘father’ Cavendish’s tilt at Tour history

TURIN: With all eyes on Mark Cavendish’s chase for a historic Tour de France stage win, Biniam Girmay instead wrote Eritrea into the record books.

When the 24-year-old “closed my eyes and went for it” to win the mass sprint in Turin the Briton, one of the world’s most famous bike racers, was nowhere near the closing action. But the modest winner was swift to send wishes to the older man.