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Jay Vine gets his winning photo as the sun shines on his second stage victory
There’s something very special, perhaps strange, about Jay Vine, and it’s not that he earned a contract by playing e-sports during the pandemic. No, Vine’s unique trait is that there is some sort of magnetic pulse that emits from his slender form, and which wreaks havoc with the weather and apparently all nearby audiovisual technology.
The 2020 Zwift Academy winner climbed to a maiden pro victory on stage 6 after attacking out of the rain-saturated GC group. It was a phenomenal first win for the Australian, but the mist was so thick that he was completely – I mean completely – invisible as he crossed the line.
Two days later, the Vuelta’s second summit finish offered another opportunity for the Alpecin-Deceuninck man who was lively in all the moves that punctuated the first hour of racing. He had some serious company though, with fellow week-one stage winner Marc Soler, as well as top climbers Thibaut Pinot, Mikel Landa and Alexey Lutsenko.
Perhaps with that in mind, Vine went and hunted down maximum mountains points, winning atop every one of the six classified climbs, with Pinot marking out the rest for second place. However, every time he accelerated for the crest, really he was putting the rest on notice, and evidently the strongest climber in the breakaway, the young Australian was ready to respond when Lutsenko attacked on the climb to the finish. The Astana-Qazaqstan rider seemed to fade fairly fast, and Vine was able to read it in his rival’s body language, knowing this was his chance to go for it.
The clouds parted briefly in the last 500 metres, a ray of sunlight picking out the new king of the mountains as he pedalled to his second pro victory, even more impressive than the first.
Vine smiled. He put a hand to his head in disbelief. Then he punched the air in celebration.
And this time we all got to see it.
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By: Kit Nicholson
Title: Jay Vine gets his winning photo as the sun shines on his second stage victory
Sourced From: cyclingtips.com/2022/08/jay-vine-gets-his-winning-photo-as-the-sun-shines-on-his-second-stage-victory/
Published Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 15:53:06 +0000
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