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Soaring temperatures in SA force Tour Down Under changes
Today's Tour Down Under stage through the Adelaide Hills and McLaren Vale will go ahead. (Getty Images: Dario Belingheri)
Catastrophic fire danger ratings have been declared for the Yorke Peninsula and the eastern Eyre Peninsula.
The Tour Down Under will go ahead as usual but spectators have been urged to stay safe.
The temperature on Australia Day in Adelaide could reach 45 degrees Celsius.
South Australian authorities say today fire danger conditions are "as serious as it gets" and that the public should be vigilant, as the day's Tour Down Under stage is modified due the heat.
The Country Fire Service has declared catastrophic fire danger ratings for the eastern Eyre Peninsula and the Yorke Peninsula today, while 12 other regions have been rated as extreme, including the Mount Lofty Ranges.
Vine survives kangaroo crash to win Tour Down Under
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Australian cycling star Jay Vine has survived a race crash caused by a kangaroo to win the Tour Down Under for the second time.
Despite losing two more UAE Team Emirates colleagues on Sunday's last stage, Vine's commanding lead was enough of a buffer. He also won the Santos Tour in 2023.
British sprint ace Matthew Brennan (Visma-Lease A Bike) won the last stage.
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Crash after kangaroo in peloton on final stage of Tour Down Under, race leader Jay Vine caught up and had to chase back
Ochre jersey works his way back into field after bike change as group sits up
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The challenges continued for UAE Team Emirates-XRG on Sunday's final stage of the Santos Tour Down Under, as while the team may have started stage 5 in the enviable position of having Jay Vine in front with an almost unheard of gap to his nearest rival of 1:03 they'd lost the previously second-placed Jhonatan Narváez from the race to a nasty crash on stage 4. An injured Vegard Stake Laengen also had to leave the race on Saturday.That left the team with five riders on the start line and then, in the early part of stage 5, there came word that there had been a crash in peloton, with a kangaroo visible hopping off the side of the road as the footage on broadcaster Seven panned back to vision of the after-effects of the crash. It showed one of Vine's teammates, Mikkel Bjerg, on the road as Vine was remounting and starting his chase.
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