The 105 / o Giro d'Italia has a new master: it comes from far away, from Perth - western Australia - a city where Australian football prevails and where the beautiful country of sailing sought glory in the 1987 America's Cup with two teams , Azzurra and Italy.
The new owner of the squad is called Jai Hindley and is 26 years old.
In 2020, that is in the Giro del Covid - which was postponed in autumn - he touched glory, wearing the pink jersey in the penultimate stage, then he saw it parade by the English Tao Geoghen Hart, surprise winner in Milan.
Even yesterday, the penultimate day of the Giro, Hindley had the privilege of wearing pink but in different circumstances: because, thanks to the last ferocious progression at the foot of the Fedaia Pass, on the Marmolada, where the last leg of the 2022,
Only a cataclysm of 10th grade Mercalli today will deprive the Australian of the triumph in a Verona that in 2019 celebrated Carapaz in the Arena, where the Ecuadorian raised the Endless Trophy to the sky.
In the 17.4 kilometers that will come it seems very complicated to hypothesize a comeback by Carapaz, called to reset 1'25 "by Hindley. A very deep groove. Unbridgeable in so few kilometers. The new leader has decided to take the pink jersey on the last one. ascent of this Giro that is not beautiful, but balanced, equally exciting and lacking the strongest stage racer in the world, Slovenian Tadej Pogacar.