The 26-year-old from Perth followed in Cadel Evans’s footsteps by becoming just the second Australian man to win a grand tour
Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Michael Steele/Getty Imagesor over a decade now, Cadel Evans has stood alone in Australia’s cycling pantheon as the only Australian to have won a cycling grand tour. With a history that dates back to the early 1900s, across a collective 288 editions of the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España, only once had an Australian stood atop a grand tour podium at the end of 21 gruelling stages.
Hindley’s triumph is all the more remarkable given the worrying sense of deja vu that had lingered over his campaign for the pink leader’s jersey. Two years ago, the West Australian announced himself to the world with In 2020, Hindley went into the time trial level on time with Geoghegan Hart. He lost 39 seconds, and the pink jersey, along the 16km course in Milan. But on Sunday, history did not repeat. Hindley once again took the overall lead on the penultimate stage, on Saturday, dropping rival Richard Carapaz in the final kilometres of the climb up Passo Fedaia. Yet by decisively overcoming Carapaz’s prior three second lead, and then some, Hindley took an 85-second advantage into the final day.
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