{"id":432031,"date":"2026-01-25T09:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432031\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T09:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:29:12","slug":"kangaroo-causes-tour-down-under-leader-jay-vine-to-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432031\/","title":{"rendered":"Kangaroo causes Tour Down Under leader Jay Vine to crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s extreme heat isn\u2019t the only danger to the riders of the WorldTour opener Tour Down Under. On Sunday\u2019s final stage, a kangaroo caused an accident that took down race leader Jay Vine and forced Vine\u2019s teammate from the race.<\/p>\n<p>It happened with 95.5 km to go and the peloton about to bring back a three-man break. A marsupial jumped onto the road and was struck by at least one rider, creating a pile up. The kangaroo was in great distress and it would be miraculous if it escaped injury. Vine was down on the deck alongside a teammate. Vine was able to carry on but his teammate Mikkel Bjerg and three others had to drop out. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Kangaroo2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Kangaroo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"418\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134951\"  \/><\/a>Vine in the ochre jersey gets back on his bike while Bjerg remains on the deck.<\/p>\n<p>The breakaway received a reinforcement and its lead ballooned again. UAE-Emirates received help from Michael Leonard\u2019s EF Education-Easypost to continue the pursuit. <\/p>\n<p>The race finale is in Stirling.<\/p>\n<p>Vine has a sizable lead, 1:03 over second place Mauro Schmid, but UAE-Emirates has been snakebit in this race, with Adam Yates crashing, Jhonatan Narvaez crashing out while occupying second place and now the kangaroo collision. Vine had two teammates left. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s extreme heat isn\u2019t the only danger to the riders of the WorldTour opener Tour Down Under. On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[78767,49,48,635,60217,44825,82,11588,146893],"class_list":["post-432031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2026-uci-worldtour","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-jay-vine","tag-kangaroo","tag-sports","tag-spotlight","tag-tour-down-under"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}