{"id":432491,"date":"2026-01-25T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432491\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T15:21:07","slug":"watch-kangaroo-causes-crash-chaos-at-tour-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432491\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Kangaroo Causes Crash, Chaos At Tour Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A kangaroo became an unlikely central figure at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flobikes.com\/events\/14720263-2026-santos-tour-down-under-men\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Tour Down Under<\/a> on Sunday after darting into the peloton and colliding with overall race leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flobikes.com\/articles\/15291318-jay-vine-takes-tour-down-under-2026-crown-despite-kangaroo-crash\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Vine during the final stage.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The high-speed incident occurred with about 95 kilometers remaining as riders raced through the Adelaide Hills at roughly 50 km\/h. Vine struck the animal and was knocked from his bike, briefly threatening his bid for overall victory in the UCI World Tour season opener.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian rider was able to continue after switching bikes and regrouping with teammates. Despite the scare, Vine finished the stage safely and secured his second Tour Down Under title.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>FloBikes Is The Streaming Home For Many Cycling Events Each Year<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss all the big cycling moments each season, as FloBikes will be there to provide streaming and expansive event coverage. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flobikes.com\/events\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the FloBikes schedule for more events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FloBikes Archived Footage<\/p>\n<p>Video footage from the event will be archived and stored in a video library for FloBikes subscribers to watch for the duration of their subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Join The FloBikes Conversation On Social<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A kangaroo became an unlikely central figure at the Tour Down Under on Sunday after darting into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-432491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432491","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=432491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}