2023 Tour de France will likely have Jai Hindley - "I'm really keen to do it"
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Jai Hindley has won the 2022 Giro d'Italia, his fifth Grand Tour of a so far world-class career, but is yet to make his debut in the Tour de France. In 2023 however, that is likely to change.
"It's really hard to manage that physical load … next year I'd really like to go to the Tour," he said in an interview with ABC News. "Whether that be helping someone else in the team or going for the result myself, then so be it.
The Australian will be racing the Vuelta a España this August but has his sights on the future afterwards, with a presence in the Wollongong World championships being a priority, but also with 2023 already in mind where he plans on racing the Grand Boucle for the first time.
In case he races the Giro d'Italia next year, he would do so with the number 1 and as the defending champion. At the Tour de France though, he doesn't put the same pressure on the table: "But I'd really like to go and just take in the whole experience and learn as much as I can, and also see what I can do at that highest level of cycling because it is the pinnacle of our sport … I've never done it before but I'm really keen to do it."
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