{"id":442114,"date":"2026-01-28T04:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442114\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T04:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:07:08","slug":"jay-vine-won-tour-down-under-with-broken-wrist-after-final-stage-crash-with-kangaroo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442114\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Vine won Tour Down Under with broken wrist after final-stage crash with kangaroo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Australia&#8217;s Jay Vine won the Tour Down Under with a fractured wrist that will now sideline him from racing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Vine was hurt after being caught up in a <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-01-25\/kangaroo-crashes-into-tour-down-under-peloton-as-jay-vine-wins\/106267096\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106267096\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crash involving two kangaroos during the final stage of the Tour<\/a> in Adelaide and its surrounds last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 30-year-old had surgery on Tuesday and will miss this weekend&#8217;s Cadel Evans Great Ocean Race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Vine&#8217;s UAE Team Emirates-XRG said a timeline for the Australian&#8217;s return remained unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;After the race Jay reported pain in his wrist from his crash during the final stage,&#8221; team medical director Adrian Rotunno said on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;After medical review, it was found that he sustained a significant left wrist scaphoid fracture and underwent successful surgery on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;He will be withdrawn from competition for post-op recovery and rehabilitation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-01-25\/kangaroo-crashes-into-tour-down-under-peloton-as-jay-vine-wins\/106267096\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kangaroo causes crash chaos as Jay Vine taken out on final TDU stage<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Jay Vine was taken out by a pair of kangaroos and lost yet another teammate to injury, but was still able to hang on and claim a second career Tour Down Under victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Vine was among several riders who crashed when two kangaroos jumped on to the course with about 95 kilometres remaining on the Tour&#8217;s last stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He needed a bike change as a result but continued on to claim his second Tour triumph, repeating his 2023 feat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;All the Europeans ask me what&#8217;s the most dangerous animal in Australia \u2014 I always tell them it&#8217;s the kangaroos,&#8221; Vine said after his victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;They wait in the bushes until you cannot stop and then they jump out in front of you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Tour Down Under was the opening event of the 2026 World Tour, which continues on Sunday with the Great Ocean \u200dRoad Race in Victoria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The weekend men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s events will go ahead despite extreme heat and bushfire risks forcing organisers to cancel the Surf Coast Classic races in Victoria scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Jay Vine won the Tour Down Under with a fractured wrist that will now sideline him from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,89775,5701,85,198973],"class_list":["post-442114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-jay-vine","tag-kangaroo","tag-sports","tag-tour-down-under"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442114","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=442114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}