The fine line between harnessing immense talent and temperament and letting it slip through your fingers is almost impossible to manage. Every athlete, every competition and dynamic differ, and what works for one rider can have the exact opposite effect on another.
Jim Ochowicz has ruled the roost over his fair share of high-strung riders over the years, but in Rohan Dennis, he perhaps has one of the roughest diamonds in the modern peloton – a rider who Ochowicz describes as having the ability and promise to achieve anything he sets his mind to.
At 26, Dennis is still developing, but his growing palmares is impressive, with two world titles, a stage win and day in yellow at the Tour de France, a Tour Down Under overall victory, and two stages at the Tour of California to his name. This year the Australian will be given a free role at the Giro d'Italia where the BMC Racing Team will set the bar high in a bid to see just what is under Dennis' hood over three weeks. It promises to be the hardest test of the rider's career to date.
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"Rohan has probably more talent than most people would give him credit for," Ochowicz tells Cyclingnews at the Tour Down Under.
"He's already proven that he can time trial, but he's not been tested yet in a Grand Tour from start to finish. This is a learning curve he's going through."
Dennis path in professional cycling is well documented. He moved into the WorldTour ranks with Garmin-Sharp after taking silver in the team pursuit in the Olympics in 2012, and he immediately shone the following year when he pulled on yellow at the Criterium du Dauphine, briefly duelling with Chris Froome et al. A Tour spot followed, but 18 months later he became the first mid-season transfer in modern history when he switched to BMC Racing ahead of the Vuelta a Espana.
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