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Stuyven was haunted by memories of a string of high-profile near-misses as he rode toward Wevelgem. Now he has another ghost to grapple with.
Eritrean rider Biniam Girmay made history on Sunday. The 21-year-old competitor won the 249-kilometer (154.7-mile) race through Belgium.
Biniam Girmay produced the biggest win of his career by outsprinting his breakaway companions in the one-day Gent-Wevelgem classic race. The 21-year-old rider from Eritrea was part of a four-man group that resisted the peloton's chase in the 249-kilometer (154.7-mile) race through Belgium. Girmay launched the sprint from the back of the group in the final dash to the line to edge Christophe Laporte of France and Dries Van Gestel of Belgium. Italian world champion Elisa Balsamo won the women's race in a sprint ahead of Marianne Vos of the Netherlands and Maria Giulia Confalonieri of Italy.
Biniam Girmay became the first African rider to win Gent-Wevelgem with the Eritrean triumphing in a four-rider sprint finish at the cobbled classic.
As the legal ordeal of two aid workers shows, anti-migrant attitudes in Greece and across Europe have hardened — to the point that the helpers have become political targets.