Biniam Girmay the ‘game changer’ – The past, the present and the future of Black Africans in cycling

“Let me open the door.”

That was the caption on Biniam Girmay‘s social media post on the first evening of July, after he became the first Black African cyclist in history to win a Tour de France stage. His point: that there is a sea of African talents behind that door, ready to take their place alongside him in the upper echelons of the sport of cycling, and in victory he has created a passage for their ascension.