Jai Hindley

I think the long, slow climbs and the long descents, like people probably get distracted by that a little bit when they're trying to grow as an athlete.

Like they see that as like the be all end all, but yeah, end of the day when you when you're doing these big long climbs like the quality is dropping pretty quick because it's hard to sustain like a pace like you you're going to be hiking right and obviously building hiking skills is a is a fitness and a skill in its own own right but you know we've seen so many good cyclists come out of perth and i think it's because we have a lot of short rideable climbs and a lot of good weather like you know we've produced um like jai hindley ben o'connor we've got sam welford we've got michael storer like luke derbridge i think perth would have the highest density of elite proper elite world tour cyclists than any other city in the in the world um and you know if we can do that in cycling which is also a view to something like should be you know you should live in areas where you have to go up big mountains and why can't we do that in running you know

and that was one of the nice things to see this year is I think, and we will talk about the live stream in more detail later, but it felt like with Transcend getting a bit more of a platform, and then you also have Margaret River, which has sort of been able to breach the East Coast attention a bit, is that we're starting to see some names that are potentially trapped a bit by the geography of WA, but are making it a bigger name.

We're realizing the level of performance as well.

Vacek, Rainer Rivera, Tejada, Higuita, Huitrago, Michael Woods, and then Australia's Hague.

Hague, Hindley, Matthews, O'Connor, Storer, Tuckwell.

Only six riders for Australia.

They're all outsiders.

Italy's projecting what's going to happen in five years.

Oh, look, what did you do in 2020? Oh, Tuckwell in there is the exception to that, but yeah.

I mean, Hindley and O'Connor, I mean, we poke fun, but Hindley was, like, top 10 in Montreal in 24.

He was good in Wales last year.

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Jai Hindley-

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I'm excited now that there is a debutant on the TT bike.

Let's see how he goes.

Um, and I'm all in on Jai Hindley.

I think he can, mm, I think he can be there with the, when the whips are cracking, but he's not gonna win.

Yeah.

And then Jai Hindley, and Tao Geoghegan Hart.

You know?

Wow.

Mm

... third place, Jai Hindley, Richard Carapaz, Mikel Landa.

Do you know who he finished [laughs] third behind the other time? This is crazy.

Alberto Contador and Fabio Aru.

example.

Yeah, on the straight long part on the ferrari, he met Jai Hindley and together they were dropping Richard Carpas' decisive move to win that Giro.

La etapa de mañana y asuntos varios.

Tomorrow's stage and any other business.

... as, as, as a Grand Tour winner, but as a very...

You know, so- someone maybe like a, like a Jai Hindley.

Obviously, Jai Hindley has won the Giro in 2022, I think it was.

Um, you know, someone like that who can win multiple stages and I, and obviously wish him the best.

Yeah, yeah.