Date: Sunday, 25 June 2023
Girmay became the first Black African to win a Grand Tour stage on the 2022 Giro d'Italia, and his team have high hopes he can add to that in July.
"His principal job will be to target a sprint stage win. To that end we have been practising a sprint train," Girmay's sports director Aike Visbeek said.
"We'll try and pull off a top 10 spot too and we'll give him all the support he needs," Visbeek said.
The Eritrean won his Giro stage in a four-man sprint ahead of Mathieu van der Poel before earning almost as much notoriety popping the cork of a fizzy wine bottle into his eye on the podium.
"It will be a big moment for me and for Eritrea," Girmay said of riding the Tour.
He has previously won a sprint classic and took a sprint stage at the recent Tour of Switzerland.
Lilian Calmejane
Rui Costa
Biniam Girmay
Louis Meintjes
Adrien Petit
Dion Smith
Mike Teunissen
Georg Zimmermann
