{"id":496214,"date":"2026-03-26T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496214\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:26:08","slug":"jay-vines-return-from-injury-cut-short-with-crash-and-abandon-on-stage-3-of-volta-a-catalunya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496214\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Vine’s return from injury cut short with crash and abandon on stage 3 of Volta a Catalunya"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jay Vine<\/a> (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) had his return to racing from injury cut short on stage 3 of Volta a Catalunya<\/a>, with a crash at around 70km to go.<\/p>\n

The Australian time trial champion came down in a crash, which saw at least five riders hit the ground.<\/p>\n

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As television cameras panned back to the aftermath of the crash, others involved, such as Leo Bisiaux (Decathlon CMA CGM) and Josh Kench (Groupama-FDJ United), could be seen getting bikes and heading back off to try and rejoin the race.<\/p>\n

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Vine’s teammate Ivo Oliveira, the national champion from Portugal, was also helped up but then continued to finish the stage as the last rider across the line, in 155th, 12:11 down on stage winner Dorian Godon<\/a> (Ineos Grenadiers).<\/p>\n

Vine, however, was visible in a deep roadside gutter. He got up but signalled that the new bike that was rushed to him from the car wouldn’t be needed \u2013 it was race over.<\/p>\n

Vine got into the team car, and it was a DNF on the results sheet for his first race back after the Tour Down Under in January, where he got through the final stage to claim overall victory despite a crash involving a kangaroo that came jumping into the peloton.<\/p>\n

That January crash cut short Vine’s successful run in what had been a diligently prepared season start, which began with Vine clinching Australia’s national time trial title and continued with a stage and overall victory in the South Australian race. Though the crash of that event then left him with a fractured wrist and out of the racing until the Volta a Catalunya, where he was still managing the impact of the increased load of racing on his wrist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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At the time of writing, UAE had yet to release a medical update following Vine’s crash on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Vine has had to deal with several injury comebacks during his career, most notably the long recovery from a terrible crash at Itzulia Basque Country in 2024 involving multiple riders that left him with multiple fractures to his vertebrae.<\/p>\n

He returned with strong form later that season and continued into a strong 2025, which included two Grand Tours, the Giro d’Italia and the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, and two individual stage wins at the Spanish Grand Tour.<\/p>\n

Vine had outlined the Giro d’Italia<\/a>, starting on May 8, as among his 2026 targets. It has a 40.2km individual time trial on stage 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) had his return to racing from injury cut short on stage 3 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-496214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}