Giro d’Italia 2022, Girmay in hospital: cork of sparkling wine ends up in his eye

Biniam Girmay wins the pink jersey of bad luck. The Eritrean rider, during the award ceremony after winning the tenth stage of the 2022 Giro d’Italia, got hurt with the cap of the sparkling wine that hit his left eye hard. As soon as he got off the podium he went to his staff saying he didn’t see almost anything and for this he was transported to the Carlo Urbani hospital in Jesi. Girmay won the Pescara-Jesi of 196 km. The Eritrean of the Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux team prevailed in the sprint on the Dutch Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) and on the blue Vincenzo Albanese (Eolo-Kometa). The Spaniard Juan Pedro Lopez Perez (Trek-Segafredo) retains the pink jersey as leader of the general classification with a 12 “advantage over the Portuguese Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates). Tomorrow 11th stage, 203 km starting from Santarcangelo di Romagna and arrival in Reggio Emilia.