Jai Hindley: Leading the Giro d'Italia was a life-changing moment for me

LAGHI DI CANCANO ITALY OCTOBER 22 Arrival Jai Hindley of Australia and Team Sunweb White Best Young Rider Jersey Celebration Tao Geoghegan Hart of The United Kingdom and Team INEOS Grenadiers during the 103rd Giro dItalia 2020 Stage 18 a 207km stage from Pinzolo to Laghi di Cancano Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio 1945m girodiitalia Giro on October 22 2020 in Laghi di Cancano Italy Photo by Stuart FranklinGetty Images
Sunweb’s Jai Hindley – in the white jersey as best young ri🍎der – wins s♒tage 18 of the 2020 Giro d’Italia at Laghi di Cancano ahead of Ineos Grenadiers’ Tao Geoghegan Hart (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)

There’s Grand Tour tired and then there’s Grand Tour-contender tired. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jai Hindley was already familiar with the former condition from his first two seasons as a professional, but he experienced the latter for the first time at 168澳洲5最🐼新开奖结果:this year’s Giro d’Italia.

Riders at the front of three-week races don’t just suffer faster, they also suffer differently. The demands continue beyond the finish line: podium ceremonies, television interviews, tactical ruminations, the pressures of leadership. Hindl🔜ey handled those additional rigo𝓡urs well to place second overall in Milan, but he could feel the toll of the accumulated mental fatigue once the race had ended.