Jai Hindley is ready to seal Australian cycling's impressive week in two of Europe's iconic early-season week-long tours by finishing on the podium in Italy's Tirreno-Adriatico race.
While national road race champ Luke Plapp was finally relegated from the top three in the other big race, Paris-Nice, on Saturday after his brilliant but exhausting breakthrough week in France, BORA-hansgrohe's Hindley demonstrated his Grand Tour-winning quality in the Apennines.
Going on the attack in the penultimate stage on Saturday (Sunday AEDT), Perth's 2022 Giro d'Italia winner Hindley tried his luck several times at breaking Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard on the slopes of Monte Petrano with 6.5km to go.