Giro: Hindley becomes first Aussie winner

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 30 - Jai Hindley on Sunday became the first Australian winner of the Giro d'Italia, defending the one and a half minute lead he snatched from 2019 winner Richard Carapaz of Ecuador on the penultimate mountainous stage in a short time trial into the finish at Verona.
    The 26-year-old from Perth, whose one-second lead in the climactic time trial two years ago was overtaken by Britain's Tao Geoghegan Hart, said "this trophy is beautiful, and it is almost bigger than me.
    "I couldn't be happier...and to think that as a little boy I wanted to become a rugby player". (ANSA).