Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) had his return to racing from injury cut short on stage 3 of Volta a Catalunya, with a crash at around 70km to go.
The Australian time trial champion came down in a crash which saw at least five riders hitting the ground.
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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 – it was race over.
Vine has had to deal with a number of 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 vertebrae fractures. 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 España, and two individual stage wins at the Spanish Grand Tour.
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