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Jay Vine wins stage three of Tour de Romandie in Switzerland
Jay Vine wins stage three of Tour de Romandie in Switzerland

ABC News

time03-05-2025

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Jay Vine wins stage three of Tour de Romandie in Switzerland

Jay Vine has added to Australia's recent cycling success in Europe, surging clear in the final kilometre to steal the third stage of the Tour de Romandie in Switzerland. The 29-year-old Townsville rider's brilliant effort came 24 hours after Loading Twitter content Vine's win was also emotional for the UAE Team Emirates star. It was his first individual World Tour victory in Europe since his terrible crash at last year's Tour of the Basque Country, during which he feared he might never walk again. Vine broke two vertebrae, but was back racing four months later. His remarkable recovery culminated when he claimed the King of the Mountains classification at the Vuelta a España in September. "It's pretty incredible. It's been a long road back to recovery from my neck injury last year," Vine said. "It's three wins this year so far, and my first World Tour win in a long time, so I'm really happy." Photo shows Sophie Marr crosses the line as Talia Appleton is bent over Sophie Marr and Jack Ward have earned development contracts with Australian professional teams Liv AlUa Jayco and Jayco AlUla in a thrilling finale to the inaugural ProVelo Super League. It was a brilliant piece of opportunism that propelled Vine to victory just after the "flamme rouge" one-kilometre-to-go marker on the 183.1km trek around Cossonay in the west of Switzerland. "The first two hours had been really, really hard, felt like it was being motor paced," he said. But after that climb, the gap was being reduced to (the leader) Stefan (Kung), and I thought, 'OK, I gotta be up here in this group to minimise time gaps, so I might as well see what I can do and have a crack.'" Vine's win leaves him sixth in the general classification, 41 seconds behind French leader Alex Baudin (EF Education-EasyPost), but with two stages to come, one a brutal climbing test and the other an individual time trial, he's not ruling out the prospect of winning the race on Sunday. "Yeah, it's all to play for tomorrow, and then the time trial on Sunday. I'm really looking forward to that, ahead of the Giro d'Italia. The GC is still wide open," he said. AAP The ABC of SPORT Sports content to make you think... or allow you not to. A newsletter delivered each Saturday. Your information is being handled in accordance with the Email address Subscribe

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