For the first time since 2015, an Australian is wearing the yellow leader's jersey at the Tour de France.
abc.net.au/news/jai-hindley-takes-lead-of-tour-de-france/102567844Australia's Jai Hindley has seized the Tour de France's yellow jersey after claiming the first mountain stage of this year's race during an eventful ride in the Pyrenees.Hindley is competing in his first TourHindley was part of an early breakaway and became the first Australian leader of the race since Rohan Dennis in 2015.
Hindley had gotten himself into a 36-man early breakaway with rival teams putting the pressure on Tadej Pogacar's UAE Team Emirates to close the gap in what turned into a fascinating tactical battle. "I didn't really know what to expect it's my first tour it's hard to come here with such massive ambition already but I want to be competitive and have some form of success and yeah I just won a stage of the Tour de France."The stage gave Hindley a 47 second lead over defending champion Jonas Vingegaard, who showed great form in the last climb of the day when he dropped two-time winner Pogacar with a sharp attack to finish the stage in fifth, with Pogacar eighth.
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