A gorilla cycles into a press room… André Greipel (Lotto Soudal) may not be destined for the stand-up circuit when he decides to hang up his wheels, but the softly-spoken German has a neat sense for a deadpan line all the same.
After claiming his second stage win of the Giro d’Italia with a furious sprint finish in Foligno, Greipel arrived at the media centre by bike, pedalling through the main doors and directly into the sports hall that housed the race’s press pack.
The win brought Greipel level with his countryman Marcel Kittel (Etixx-QuickStep) on two victories apiece this week, though the latter’s puncture in the final kilometres meant that the expected all-German sprint battle did not materialise.
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No sooner had Greipel taken his seat in the conference room than he was asked if he believed he should lead the German team at October’s sprinter-friendly World Championships in Doha rather than Kittel or John Degenkolb (Giant-Alpecin).
“I know the World Championships are in October,” Greipel said and then added: “Now we have May.”
A more convoluted approach to landing an answer to the same query followed. As Giro press officer Matt Rendell began to translate the question, Greipel smiled – “I understood that” – and assented to delivering a longer version of his default diplomatic response.
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