One of UAE’s best climbers will make life rehabilitation

It can still compete at high level. One of UAE’s best climbers will make a rehabilitation for life.

Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel were the injured who took the most press during the fall of the Basque Country 2024, but there were runners who left worse unemployed, such as Steff Cras and Jay Vine.

The latter lived a Calvary since his life was at risk and then the possibility of walking again. All that with his pregnant wife. The Australian little by little and managed to recover to the point of being a cyclist again. To such an extent that he wins stages as he did in the Romandía Tour today.

His training only in climb (yes, went down) came followed by a call for the return to Spain, where he demonstrated his physical capacity and even won the mountain classification. Movie!

But an accident like his was not free and Aussie will drag sequelae for life, as Cyclingnews now revealed. “It was a long recovery and on the return I still had back problems. In fact, I will have to make the rest of my life rehabilitation,” he said.

“I have a crushed vertebra and that cannot be undone,” he continued. “The doctors warned me a long time ago, that surely I would have symptoms for the rest of my life and I will have to learn to live with that,” he said.

The family

But of course, it is not just something physical, because the head was marked. “I began to think that my family goes ahead if everything is going wrong,” he acknowledged, in reference to certain financial investments, life insurance.

Paradoxically, Vine was always very careful not to fall, but training is not competing. “I never take risks. I am the slower person training because I have no risk and in fact I never fell training even until today,” he said.

“That has not changed but the accident caused me to constantly think about my family’s future,” said the athlete, who was in bed with an orthopedic neck.

Vine coincides with many that cycling has evolved by leaps and bounds in technological or nutrition matters and that it is more and faster, while it remains an “old” sport in terms of security.

Your ambitions

Finally, Vine made his ambitions clear. While it is an excellent climber, it also makes the chronos as the gods and that makes it an interesting return prospectus that, according to him, is in the wrong team for that.

“If there was a chance, of course I would like. But there are many cyclists like this and on top of the boss (Pogacar) two big per year, so it is complicated,” he said. On the other hand, despite his age (29) he knows that he was late for cycling and that gives him margin.

Immediately, he will go to the turn to help Ayuso and Yates, while personally he will go after the stage victory in the Cronos of Days 2 and 10.

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