Vuelta a Burgos: Jay Vine wins stage 4 time trial

PAMPLIEGA SPAIN AUGUST 08 Stage winner Jay Vine of Australia and UAE Team Emirates sprints during the 46th Vuelta a Burgos Stage 4 an 184km individual time trial stage from Santa Maria del Campo to Pampliega on August 08 2024 in Pampliega Spain Photo by Gonzalo Arroyo MorenoGetty Images
Vuelta a Burgos: Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates) wins stage 4 (Image credit: Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno/Getty Images)

Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates) took his first victory since suffering multiple vertebrae fractures at the Itzulia Basque Country crash, winning the rolling 18.5km time trial at the Vuelta a Burgos in northern Spain.

The Australian set a time of 19:51 and stayed in the hot seat as his rivals failed to beat his time. Vine smiled and punched the air when his stage victory was confirmed. He beat Edoardo Affini (Visma-Lease a Bike) by 12 seconds, with Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain Victorious) by 13 seconds.

The USA’s Sepp Kuss (Visma-Lease a Bike) finished 15th in a time of 20:34 but just managed to keep the purple race leader’s jersey before Friday’s final hilly stage.

Max Poole (dsm-firmenich PostNL) beat Kuss by 22 seconds and so reduced the gap to Kuss in the general classification to just five seconds. 

“It’s an incredible feeling,” he said. “I feel pretty incredible. That’s a really nice performance in my first race back after an injury. I’m really happy with how the legs are going.

"It’s been really long. My wife has been so patient and supportive the entire time. The team was constantly in contact to get me ready to race. Four months ago I was in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit), not far from here actually.  To be on the top step of a stage, a time trial, after what I went through is incredible.

"This isn’t even the most special thing that is happening to me this month. Hopefully my wife gives birth in the next couple of days to my first born, so it’s incredible.”

“The second part was more rolling and I knew that after the headwind, I had to just I’ve everything I had,”  he explained. "I talked to my coach before the stage and I knew that if I had anything left in my legs, I had to give everything I could."

“On paper it should come down to a sprint, but there’s also time bonuses and lots of things can happen, perhaps crosswinds, some short climbs. We’ll see,” he said.

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