{"id":437072,"date":"2026-01-25T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/437072\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:16:08","slug":"rogue-kangaroos-hop-into-cyclists-mid-race-causing-chaos-at-tour-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/437072\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogue kangaroos hop into cyclists mid-race causing chaos at Tour Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/runaway-wallaby-found-walmart-new-jersey-b2893313.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:rogue kangaroos;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">rogue kangaroos<\/a> caused chaos at the Tour Down Under after jumping into cyclists mid-race.<\/p>\n<p>Eventual winner Jay Vine was among the riders who went down when the pair hopped into the middle of the road in Adelaide, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/australia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Australia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Australia<\/a> on Sunday (25 January).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the race, Jay Vine said, &#8220;Two of them blasted through the peloton as we were doing probably 50km an hour and one of them stopped, went left, right, left, right, and I ended up hitting its backside&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the crash, Jay Vine went on to win his second Tour Down Under, having first achieved the feat in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two rogue kangaroos caused chaos at the Tour Down Under after jumping into cyclists mid-race. Eventual winner Jay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,89775,85],"class_list":["post-437072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-jay-vine","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437072","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=437072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}