{"id":429616,"date":"2026-01-24T05:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/429616\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T05:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:51:09","slug":"jhonatan-narvaez-crashes-on-stage-4-of-tour-down-under-rider-who-started-the-day-in-second-place-abandons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/429616\/","title":{"rendered":"Jhonatan Narv\u00e1ez crashes on stage 4 of Tour Down Under, rider who started the day in second place abandons"},"content":{"rendered":"

UAE Team Emirates-XRG had put themselves in an enviable position after stage 2 of the Santos Tour Down Under<\/a>, with its two former winners in Jay Vine and Jhonatan Narv\u00e1ez in first and second with a margin of around one minute to their nearest overall rivals, but on Saturday’s shortened stage 4 Narv\u00e1ez crashed and it was soon announced that he would be leaving the race.<\/p>\n

The shortened stage \u2013 altered due to the extreme fire risk and temperatures rising over 40\u00b0C \u2013 had barely got underway when the crash occurred and it quickly became clear that the Ecuadorian would not be continuing.<\/p>\n

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His abandon was confirmed by Tour Down Under’s live results feed with its social media adding, “Not the start of the day UAE Team Emirates-XRG hoped for: After Adam Yates crashing yesterday, it’s now Jhonatan Narv\u00e1ez who is forced to leave the Santos Tour Down Under.”<\/p>\n

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Then another UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider was also involved in a crash, with Vegard Stake Laengen involved in a later fall which also led to him leaving the race.<\/p>\n

At the start of the stage, Narv\u00e1ez had been six seconds back from race-leading teammate Vine, with his nearest rival being Mauro Schmid (Jayco-AlUla) at a further 59 seconds back.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the stage UAE Team Emirates-XRG sports director Fabrizio Guidi had told Cyclingnews that the team would be in defence mode, and warned that they would not be able to let their guard down for a second.<\/p>\n

“It’s windy, and when it’s a sprint stage it’s always difficult. Like yesterday, you saw crashes and all these things and we would always start anyway with a huge concentration,” he said. “We can never relax, never because everybody thinks it’s easy, it’s easy, but at the end of the day we need to do these 130 kms and then tomorrow also, so that’s not the case.”<\/p>\n

Before the stage was even halfway through UAE Team Emirates-XRG was two riders down in its defence of Vine’s leader’s jersey.<\/p>\n

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