Classic "difficult second album" syndrome.
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on Friday Teunissen said that basically the whole team was sick. So that may have still played a part as well.
Intermarché as a whole is performing pretty bad indeed.
They obviously had a super start of the season tho, maybe some guys just peaked too early. Even tho it weren't necessarily the classic guys who were doing great in January and February.
The whole team? Was it something they ate? Being a Friday it could have been fish.
I think it's more likely to be some kind of viral infection. Teunissen already was a DNS sick in Milano Torino, and isn't back to his best yet again
And bad fish has a particular meaning in cycling history. But, yeah, alliteration, always.
They should have asked Patrick Lefevere about where to eat.
Any pie shops in Wevelgem? Ones serving pie of the humble variety?
Seems he simply forgot to fuel.
It also seems he's been relying on the wrong kind of fuel, too:
If only he was allowed to wear a subcutaneous glucose monitor. Damn you UCI, damn you to hell!
I can't believe he actually thinks this should be an excuse; just ridiculous. Riders have been bonking/getting the fringale since cycling long distances became a thing. Eating and drinking should be at the forefront of every professionals mind in any long race, and if a rider is that forgetful the director should be yelling at him/her every 10 minutes to not forget to set.
The fact is, like so many others he caught lightning in a bottle with once-in-a-lifetime fitness and/or other reasons which belong in another area of the forum. His team overpaid massively and we'll hear excuse after excuse until people stop bothering to interview him about it. A story we've heard time and again.
What do you expect? He has literally one job, for which he is being paid a great deal of money. Ordinarily I wouldn't say a thing, but I read this "forgot to eat" crap and the gloves come off. Try telling your employer you screwed up the most important part of your job due to forgetting one of the most basic parts of it and see how far that gets you.
As for the other part, plenty of other riders fall under the light of suspicion when their performance drops off dramatically; not sure why Binnie would get a pass.
Yeah, cause he's the only Pro who didn't take in enough fuel or didn't take enough from the last feed zone. Porte dropping back in the Tour to get a gel for Froome, springs to mind.
Did I say he was? I'm responding specifically to him being quoted as using the "I forgot to eat" excuse, but would feel the same way about any other 'professional' forgetting to eat. Fueling is one of the most basic aspects of endurance sport and using that as an excuse just doesn't cut it.
For the record, if the winds are savage and the riders have spent the day in echelons groveling in the gutter I can understand not even having the opportunity to eat until it's too late but that is hardly the case here.
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Dunno. It happens even to the best, ask MvDP about Harrowgate...
Ghirmay is off this year, for sure, but then again so are Asgreen, Alaphilippe. I expect he'll be very, very good at some point. I don't yet see a reason to worry.
Ghirmay is off this year, for sure, but then again so are Asgreen, Alaphilippe. I expect he'll be very, very good at some point. I don't yet see a reason to worry.
True, but all parts of the year are not created equal and for a Belgian team like his this is one of the most important parts, if not THE most important part, and they paid him big Euro to be ready now.
He's certainly not the only rider this has ever happened to, but it's his thread so he's the topic. Personally I'd love to see him come good the next couple weeks but it's not looking promising at the moment.
Oh yeah, he will get absolutely steamrolled on Sunday. Hopefully he will bounce back in July, but this bonking theory seems kinda whack. 1) he didn't forget to eat last year, its not something you suddenly just forget 2) he's not been close to the level of last year recently, I doubt every race is down to just forgetting to eat.
I hope to see him in Amstel too, I just don't think it will be a battle of the titans as Biniam is still very far from Pogačar.
Okay, it was my thread but I can't change the title anymore, maybe a mod can... @Red Rick
Maybe a simple "Biniam Girmay discussion thread" will do.
Maybe a simple "Biniam Girmay discussion thread" will do.
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