{"id":6278,"date":"2024-10-31T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/the-eritrean-cyclists-in-pursuit-of-biniam-girmay-and-tour-de-france-history\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T09:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T09:00:29","slug":"the-eritrean-cyclists-in-pursuit-of-biniam-girmay-and-tour-de-france-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/the-eritrean-cyclists-in-pursuit-of-biniam-girmay-and-tour-de-france-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eritrean cyclists in pursuit of Biniam Girmay and Tour de France history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teklemariam is proud to be a member of Asbeco, the club where Girmay began his career before receiving a scholarship from the International Cycling Union (UCI).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Biniam is a talented rider who has achieved things no African cyclist ever has,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It excites me that he rode for the same club where I&#8217;m training now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teklemariam is coached by Yonas Zekarias, who also worked with Girmay during his early years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He sees a parallel between the two riders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When Biniam won three medals in 2018, I said then that he could reach the highest level in cycling,&#8221; Zekarias told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now, Keven and his teammates show the same potential and maturity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Henok Mulubrhan, a professional with Astana-Qazaqstan and three-time African champion, is optimistic about Teklemariam&#8217;s talent<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know these young riders well,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Some of them train with me in Eritrea, and Keven is certainly one to watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/c8xpe5nkedvo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teklemariam is proud to be a member of Asbeco, the club where Girmay began his career before receiving a scholarship from the International Cycling Union (UCI). &#8220;Biniam is a talented rider who has achieved things no African cyclist ever has,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It excites me that he rode for the same club where I&#8217;m training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6280,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions\/6280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}