The four racing days of Bara Afik Israel in memory of the late Giora Tzahor ended today (Saturday), when the Israeli favorites for victory met expectations and provided the fans with a kind of "state-of-the-art performance".
The Israeli team of Guy Niv and Nadav Reisberg finished in fourth place overall and first among the Israelis, when they were ahead of couples from Germany, Austria and Spain.
Niv, the Israeli rider who successfully completed the three World Grand Tour races (Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and the Spanish Valletta), added the fifth channel to his resume, and mainly raised next to him a rider who could become the next thing in the industry.
In the mixed doubles category we got a special show as well, with Olympic riders Omar Shapira and Shlomi Chaimi finishing in first place in the category, with Rotem Gafinovich and Omar Lahav in second place.
Shapira showed great ability at the Tokyo Olympics, and was very close to competing for a place on the podium.
Haimi finished last in the field race in which he participated, but showed, as mentioned, that in Israel he still has no competitors.
The couple who finished in third place, Tzachi Ben Gigi and Lian Vitkin, did not win gold, but at the end of the bus, Ben Gigi knelt down and proposed marriage to his partner on and off the track.
In the second: Fromm's last race
When he joined Israel Start-Up Nation last season, expectations from Irish climber Dan Martin (35) were particularly high.
He was to prepare the ground for Guy Niv's ascent, and become one of the leading riders.
When the other veteran riders who reached the same goal collapsed, it was Martin who saved the day.
He won the third section at Valletta last season and added a huge victory in the 17th section of the Giro, thus completing victories in all three major races - two of them in the Startup Nation uniform.
Yesterday, in his last race of his career, in the classic Il Lombardia that launched on Lake Como and finished 239 km in Bergamo, Martin finished in 38th place, with Primoz Roglich winning the one-day race in a time of 6: 01.39 hours. Michael Woods, Canadian rider Of Startup Nation, finished ninth.
Dan Martin in the Tour de France 2020, Photo: Reuters,
Chris Fromm, who also took part in Lombardy, appeared for a few moments in an assassination attempt, but he will not particularly want to remember this season, and it will end for him tomorrow in the one-day Italian Copa Agostoni race.
Tomorrow (Sunday, 16:20, Eurosport) the Israeli audience will be happy to discover Guy Sagiv, a graduate of the Giro d'Italia, who will compete in the one-day race between Paris and Tor (212.5 km).
