UAE Team Emirates-XRG had put themselves in an enviable position after stage 2 of the Santos Tour Down Under, with its two former winners in Jay Vine and Jhonatan Narváez in first and second with a margin of around one minute to their nearest overall rivals, but on Saturday’s shortened stage 4 Narváez crashed and it was soon announced that he would be leaving the race.
The shortened stage had barely got underway – amid extreme fire risk and temperatures rising over 40°C when the crash occurred and it soon became clear that the Ecuadorian would not be continuing.
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