Order Now with Main Event on Kayo Sports.<\/a><\/p>\nVine took the lead in the race general classification by six seconds from Narvaez with Schmid third 1min 5sec behind the leader.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been on my mind since the last time I wore the ochre leader\u2019s jersey, it\u2019s so incredible to win on such a hard stage,\u201d Vine said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have such a strong position now with me and Jonny (Narvaez) and being led out by Adam Yates is pretty incredible as well.\u201d <\/p>\n
Narvaez, who appeared to be gasping to keep up with Vine on the demanding final Corkscrew climb, paid tribute to his teammate. <\/p>\n
\u201cJay was really strong, I was just a passenger on his wheel on the climb,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe prepared really well for this race and we are happy to get the victory and, of course, we are looking to win the GC.\u201d <\/p>\n
It was a huge statement by the powerful UAE team with three stages left in the UCI World Tour season opener. <\/p>\n
It was the first time in the race\u2019s 26 years that a men\u2019s stage had featured two Corkscrew Hill climbs.<\/p>\n
Umpire intervenes after fiery clash! | 01:07<\/p>\n
With 700 metres left up the steep 2.6km ascent Vine blasted clear and Narvaez was the only rider who could go with him astheir attack scattered the peloton. <\/p>\n
Denmark\u2019s Tobias Lund Andresen, the race leader after stage one, was dropped on the last climb of the Corkscrew and limpedhome in 82nd place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former winner Jay Vine and defending champion Jhonatan Narvaez completed a one-two for UAE Team Emirates XRG to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-429918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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