{"id":437524,"date":"2026-01-26T00:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/437524\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:36:08","slug":"cyclist-jay-vine-recovers-from-kangaroo-collision-to-win-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/437524\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist Jay Vine recovers from kangaroo collision to win Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jay<\/p>\n

\nJay Vine.
\nPhoto: AFP\n<\/p>\n

Jay Vine has claimed a second career Tour Down Under title, but it was not without drama after he was taken out by a kangaroo mid-way through the sixth and final stage.<\/p>\n

With 100 kilometres remaining of the 170km stage, a kangaroo caused chaos in the peloton, taking out the race leader and a handful of others on the circuit around Stirling.<\/p>\n

“Everyone asks me what’s the most dangerous thing in Australia and I always tell them it’s the kangaroos,” a relieved Vine told Seven News at the finish.<\/p>\n

“They wait and they hide in the bushes until you can’t stop and then they jump out in front of you.<\/p>\n

“Point proven today – two of them blasted through the peloton as we were doing 50km\/h.<\/p>\n

“One of them stopped, went left, right, left, right, left, right and then I ended up hitting its backside as it was flaying around on the ground.<\/p>\n

“It’s one of those things, bad luck, but luckily I’m OK and was able to hang onto the jersey.<\/p>\n

“There’s only so much you can do.”<\/p>\n

Vine was able to quickly remount and, after a bike change, was back on his way, eventually finishing safely in the main group behind British star Matthew Brennan (Visma | Lease a bike), who won a blistering sprint to the line after a brutal stage that included almost 3,000 metres of climbing.<\/p>\n

New Zealand’s Finn Fisher-Black was beaten into second place on the final stage and finished fourth overall in the race for the sprinter classification title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jay Vine. Photo: AFP Jay Vine has claimed a second career Tour Down Under title, but it was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,1590,63,1589,784,44,1591,1588,1586,1587,85],"class_list":["post-437524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-audio","tag-australia","tag-current-affairs","tag-cycling","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437524","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=437524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}