Jay Vine wins stage three of Tour de Romandie in SwitzerlandTopic:Road Cycle Racing11m ago11 minutes agoSat 3 May 2025 at 2:13amJay Vine celebrates his stage win at the Tour de Romandie. (AP: Keystone/Jean-Christophe Bott)In short:Jay Vine has continued Australia's successes on European roads, winning stage three of Switzerland's Tour de Romandie.The stage victory was Vine's first World Tour win since his terrible crash at last year's Tour of the Basque Country.What's next?Vine is sixth in the general classification, just 41 seconds adrift from the leader Alex Baudin, with two stages remaining.abc.net.au/news/jay-vine-wins-stage-three-of-tour-de-romandie-in-switzerland/105247316Link copiedShareShare articleJay Vine has added to Australia's recent cycling success in Europe, surging clear in the final kilometre to steal the third stage of the Tour de Romandie in Switzerland.The 29-year-old Townsville rider's brilliant effort came 24 hours after Michael Matthews had won the Eschborn-Frankfurt one-day race, and a week after Michael Storer took the overall victory at the Tour of the Alps.Loading Twitter contentVine's win was also emotional for the UAE Team Emirates star. It was his first individual World Tour victory in Europe since his terrible crash at last year's Tour of the Basque Country, during which he feared he might never walk again.Vine broke two vertebrae, but was back racing four months later. His remarkable recovery culminated when he claimed the King of the Mountains classification at the Vuelta a España in September."It's pretty incredible. It's been a long road back to recovery from my neck injury last year," Vine said."It's three wins this year so far, and my first World Tour win in a long time, so I'm really happy."ProVelo Super League crowns champions in thrilling conclusionPhoto shows Sophie Marr crosses the line as Talia Appleton is bent overSophie Marr and Jack Ward have earned development contracts with Australian professional teams Liv AlUa Jayco and Jayco AlUla in a thrilling finale to the inaugural ProVelo Super League.It was a brilliant piece of opportunism that propelled Vine to victory just after the "flamme rouge" one-kilometre-to-go marker on the 183.1km trek around Cossonay in the west of Switzerland."The first two hours had been really, really hard, felt like it was being motor paced," he said.But after that climb, the gap was being reduced to (the leader) Stefan (Kung), and I thought, 'OK, I gotta be up here in this group to minimise time gaps, so I might as well see what I can do and have a crack.'"Vine's win leaves him sixth in the general classification, 41 seconds behind French leader Alex Baudin (EF Education-EasyPost), but with two stages to come, one a brutal climbing test and the other an individual time trial, he's not ruling out the prospect of winning the race on Sunday."Yeah, it's all to play for tomorrow, and then the time trial on Sunday. I'm really looking forward to that, ahead of the Giro d'Italia. The GC is still wide open," he said.AAPThe ABC of SPORTSports content to make you think... or allow you not to. 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