{"id":99644,"date":"2025-08-28T23:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/99644\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:20:06","slug":"jay-vines-solo-attack-wins-vueltas-sixth-stage-as-vingegaard-loses-lead-to-traeen-vuelta-a-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/99644\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Vine\u2019s solo attack wins Vuelta\u2019s sixth stage as Vingegaard loses lead to Traeen | Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian cyclist Jay Vine launched a solo attack off a breakaway group in the final 20 kilometres to win stage six of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a> on Thursday, with Torstein Traeen of Norway taking second place and the overall race lead from Jonas Vingegaard.<\/p>\n

Vine was part of a 10-man group which got away early on the 170.3km ride from Olot to Pal in Andorra, before the UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider went for broke and held off the chasers to secure the third individual Vuelta stage win of his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Vuelta wasn\u2019t on my schedule originally, so to be able to win in Andorra in front of my son and wife is unbelievable and incredibly motivating,\u201d Vine, who lives in Andorra, said. \u201cThat last 5km, all I could think of was \u2018This is for you Harrison, this is for you\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first real mountain stage of this year\u2019s race brought the first big shake-up in the overall standings, with four of the group which escaped the peloton overtaking race favourite Vingegaard in the overall standings.<\/p>\n

Traeen, riding for Bahrain Victorious, came in 54 seconds behind Vine, enough to move from 26th overall to the top of the general classification, with a 31-second lead over Frenchman Bruno Armirail, who finished fourth on the stage.<\/p>\n

Italy\u2019s Lorenzo Fortunato (XDS Astana) was third over the line and is also third overall, while Vine\u2019s teammate Vingegaard dropped from first to fifth, two minutes and 33 seconds adrift of Traeen.<\/p>\n

The riders were climbing from the start and the breakaway made their successful move on the first ascent, with Vine first over the summit of Collada de Sentigosa, as last year\u2019s mountains classification winner showed early signs of his climbing prowess.<\/p>\n

Vine and his companions steadily increased their lead, overcoming the category one climb of Collada de Toses in wet conditions. With 40km left, the relaxed peloton trailed by more than six minutes, and while they later began to eat into the gap, it was too late to haul in the riders out in front.<\/p>\n

Norway\u2019s Torstein Traeen attacked near the end of stage six and his second place earned him the overall lead in the Vuelta. Photograph: Tim de Waele\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Vine was again first when they topped La Comella, and the Australian pushed ahead on the descent, pulling further away on the final climb to the finish and never looked like getting caught.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know these roads pretty well. I\u2019m from just down the hill, and La Comella is my favourite climb in all of Andorra,\u201d Vine said. \u201cI decided to go at the top and with the wet descent, I know the descent really well and I thought, \u2018OK, this is my chance to get away and then there\u2019s no funny business\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

With riders such as Armirail, Fortunato and Louis Vervaeke threatening Traeen\u2019s red jersey bid, the 30-year-old Norwegian, who was diagnosed with testicular cancer three years ago, launched his own attack.<\/p>\n

The race continues in the mountains for Friday\u2019s stage seven, taking the riders 188km from Andorra la Vella to another category one climb to the finish at Cerler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian cyclist Jay Vine launched a solo attack off a breakaway group in the final 20 kilometres to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-99644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99644","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=99644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}