Good news regarding
Romanian athletes and their performances these days comes from France
as Romanian cyclist Eduard Michael Grosu has extended his contract
with the professional French team Nippo Delko One Provence, Italian
publication Gazzetta dello Sport has announced.
The prestigious
publication has noted the signing of the new agreement valid until
the end of 2021 in an uncertain period due to the coronavirus
pandemic. The Romanian athlete has confirmed the news on his Facebook
page underlining that he is the first cyclist in the world that has
signed up during the pandemic. Grosu has been competing for the team
in Marseilles since 2019.
Eduard Michael
Grosu was born in Zărnești, central Romania on September 4th
1992.
He became Romania’s under twenty-one champion in the individual
time trial competition of 2010 and reaped the same title in a
seniors’ competition three years later when he also won a leg of
the Tour of Romania cycling competition.
In 2014 he signed
up with Vini Fantini Nippo, with which he obtained international
recognition. A year later he and Serghei Țvetcov became the first
Romanians to have finished a top-notch cycling competition, Giro
d’Italia, the Tour of Italy. Furthermore, Grosu managed a fifth
place in one of the prestigious competition’s legs.
He also
participated in the same competition in 2016 when he came 153rd,
three places below his previous performance. In 2017 he again became
Romania’s champion in individual trial competition a performance he
repeated in 2018, when he reaped the national road cycling title.
The best year of
Eduard Michael Grosu’s career proved to be 2019 when he won the
Belgian race Tour du Limburg, while in China he ended on the first
position in the Qinghai Lake Tour, with two legs won. He obtained
similar performances in the Tours of Slovakia and Croatia. (Translated by: Daniel Bilt)