The team\u2019s medical director, Dr Adrian Rotunno, explained the situation in an official statement: \u201cAfter the race, Jay reported wrist pain as a consequence of the crash on the final stage. Following medical assessment, a significant scaphoid fracture was detected in his left wrist and he successfully underwent surgery on Tuesday morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
UAE Team Emirates has confirmed that Vine will be withdrawn from competition to focus on postoperative recovery and rehabilitation, with no specific timetable yet set for his return to racing.<\/p>\n
The update on Bjerg read: \u201cMikkel collided with a kangaroo that entered the road. He abandoned the race and was examined by the doctors. He has an acromioclavicular joint fracture and a hand fracture.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vine has built a robust stage race r\u00e9sum\u00e9, with two overall victories at the Tour Down Under<\/a> (2023 and 2026), plus two overall runner-up finishes at the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey (2021 and 2022) and another second overall at the Tour of Norway in 2022. Nationally, he is a two-time Australian time trial champion (2023 and 2026); and he took silver in the 2025 World Championships time trial, alongside back-to-back second places at Chrono des Nations (2024 and 2025).In terms of stage wins, Vine has four at the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a (2022 and 2025), where he also claimed two mountains classifications (2024 and 2025). His palmar\u00e8s also includes stage victories at the Tour de Romandie (2025), the Tour Down Under<\/a> (2026) and the Vuelta a Burgos (2024), as well as two stage wins at Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team\u2019s medical director, Dr Adrian Rotunno, explained the situation in an official statement: \u201cAfter the race, Jay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,60217,82,146893,129545],"class_list":["post-436283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-jay-vine","tag-sports","tag-tour-down-under","tag-uae-team-emirates-xrg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436283","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=436283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}