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(letour) BINIAM GIRMAY (INTERMARCHE-WANTY): “WE DID SUCH AN INCREDIBLE JOB TO PROTECT THIS JERSEY”

Posted by: Semere Asmelash

Date: Saturday, 20 July 2024

INTERVIEW July 20 th 2024 - 19:15

BINIAM GIRMAY (INTERMARCHE-WANTY): “WE DID SUCH AN INCREDIBLE JOB TO PROTECT THIS JERSEY”


20/07/2024 - Tour de France 2024 - Étape 20 - Nice / Col de la Couillole (132,8 km) - GIRMAY Biniam (INTERMARCHÉ - WANTY)20/07/2024 - Tour de France 2024 - Étape 20 - Nice / Col de la Couillole (132,8 km) - GIRMAY Biniam (INTERMARCHÉ - WANTY) © A.S.O./Billy Ceusters

"From the start of the Tour I’ve had such incredible teammates you know. All the staff, the team manager, the bosses, I want to say thank you to them, because from the start we had a great atmosphere, good team spirit. Especially the riders, they are super nice guys and we don’t have time to celebrate tomorrow on the time trial, so we said ok guys we have enough time, so let’s celebrate now, because for sure we deserve it. We did such an incredible job to protect this jersey. We gave everything we had. We have really the smallest budget of the World Tour teams, so to have three incredible victories and the green jersey, it’s just amazing. Especially for Laurenz Rex and Hugo Page it’s the first Grand Tour for them and they are just great riders and I’m happy to have them. If you see it on paper the last two days were incredibly hard days and we could not gain any points and also Sunday it’s not in Paris, so you also can’t gain any, so the only thing we needed to do was survive and reach the finish line. That’s why I didn’t want to talk about the green jersey, I just wanted to enjoy my day and survive."

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