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Jay Vine goes from virtual racing to ‘unreal’ Vuelta a España victory

Jay Vine goes from virtual racing to 'unreal' Vuelta a España victory

It wasn’t Jay Vine’s kind of weather, but it was definitely his kind of day. The Australian had targeted the ascent of Pico Jano before this Vuelta a España began, and the climb proved as amenable in reality as it had appeared in the road book.

Vine famously won his passage to the professional peloton by way of riding his turbo trainer to win an online competition, but there were no home comforts on stage 6 of the Vuelta, played out on a mountainside doused in rain and shrouded in low cloud. His first victory as a professional was earned the hard way and in the most arduous of circumstances.

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