{"id":436512,"date":"2026-01-27T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436512\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:20:08","slug":"jay-vine-won-tour-down-under-with-a-significant-fracture-team-reveals-as-he-undergoes-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436512\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Vine won Tour Down Under with a ‘significant’ fracture, team reveals as he undergoes surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite finishing the stage and winning the race, Jay Vine<\/a> (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) actually fractured his scaphoid in a crash on stage 5 of the Tour Down Under<\/a>, his team revealed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Ochre jersey-wearer Vine was involved in the crash caused by two kangaroos<\/a> on Sunday’s final stage, and whilst it didn’t dent his ability to hold onto the race lead and claim overall victory<\/a>, he finished the stage in pain and had a ‘significant’ injury in his wrist.<\/p>\n

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“After the race Jay reported pain in his wrist from his crash during the final stage. After medical review, it was found that he sustained a significant left wrist scaphoid fracture,” UAE medical director Dr. Adrian Rotunno said.<\/p>\n

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The 30-year-old, who is still in Australia, underwent surgery on Tuesday, which the team described as ‘successful’, but they confirmed that: “He will be withdrawn from competition for post-op recovery and rehabilitation.”<\/p>\n

Vine was expected to take part in the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, but now his return to competition is unknown. The Australians’ season goals include the Giro d’Italia<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n

Having taken a minute on all his rivals on stage 2 to Corkscrew Road<\/a>, Vine went into the final weekend of the Tour Down Under with a significant buffer; his lead only made more secure when fire risks and heat forced the organisers to remove Willunga Hill from stage 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A separate crash saw teammate and defending champion Jhonatan Narv\u00e1ez drop out of the race on stage 4,<\/a> who suffered fractured vertebrae in the incident, whilst Vegard Stake Langen also sustained a rib injury.<\/p>\n

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Vine therefore started the final, flatter stage missing important team support, and the kangaroo-related crash was another hurdle to get over, but the race leader managed to hold onto his lead to take his second Tour Down Under title, riding with a broken wrist to do so.<\/p>\n

UAE Team Emirates-XRG<\/a> come away from the Tour Down Under with the overall win for the second year in a row, but also with significant injuries for three of their riders and severely depleted options for the weekend’s racing in Victoria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite finishing the stage and winning the race, Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) actually fractured his scaphoid in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-436512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436512","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=436512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}