As the cycling world celebrated the second Australian to win a Grand Tour, backers of the UCI road cycling event in September couldn’t hide their smiles, either.
Jai Hindley’s Giro d’Italia victory has given Geoff Wilson a big smile. The Wilson Asset Management chairman – and board member of this year’s UCI Road World Championships to be held in Wollongong – expects the value ofHindley, who on Sunday threw off the memory of being pipped to first place in the 2020 race to become the
“Wins of this magnitude make international cycling more relevant to an Australian audience, creating more opportunities to grow participation and commercial support, and amplify the transformation taking place in Australian cycling,” said Wollongong 2022 CEO Stu Taggart. “At 26 years of age, he’s going to be extremely hot property in the world of cycling,” said Matt Poyner, the chief executive of national body AusCycling WA.“This has the potential to take Jai from being a well-known possibly gonnabe to a superstar of world cycling.”
Hindley, who grew up under the tutelage of his father Gordon and rode for Perth’s Midland Cycle Club, had to work hard to achieve his success, said Brad Hall, the managing director of Cycling Development Foundation, a not-for-profit development organisation for junior athletes.“He was up there, but we’re not talking about a guy who from day one has been a world-beater,” said Mr Hall, who rode with Hindley in 2015.
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