Jay Vine enjoyed a spectacularly successful 2026 season in general, but as the UAE Team Emirates-XRG racer sees it, the one part of the year that went a shade awry was how it all began when he set out on his home roads in Australia.
Fast forward 12 months and this time round, in the same scenario, the 30-year-old is very much hoping to set the record straight.
Last January, the UAE Team Emirates-XRG pro finished second in the National Time Trial – a title he took back in 2023, the same year he won the Tour Down Under overall – and sixth in the equivalent elite men’s road race. He then placed eleventh in Australia’s premier stage race, the Tour Down Under, with victory going to teammate Jhonatan Narváez.
However, much of the rest of the season went remarkably well for Vine. The Giro d’Italia ended with sickness and a crash-out, but on the other hand he took victory in two stages and the mountains classification – the latter for a second straight year – at the Vuelta a España. After that, too, came a silver medal for Australia in the elite men’s time trial at the World Championships in Kigali, as well as a collective victory in the mixed-relay TTT.
“That’s probably the only thing that I’d like to have changed from last year – having a better Australian season.”
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