Good week/Bad week: Who's up and who's down after the first nine stages of the Vuelta a Espana 2022?

Good Week Jay Vine Ad Vuelta a EspañaLa Vuelta: How to watch Stage 10 as pivotal time trial day beckons4 HOURS AGO “Good” doesn’t come close to describing how well it’s gone for the 26 year-old Australian in the first week of his second grand tour. To take one win at this level, as Oscar Wilde didn’t say, can be regarded as fortunate, to take two begins to look like brilliance. Just as the Americans, Brits and Australians were viewed with some disdain as they began to make their mark on cycling all those years ago, so the next generation of riders breaking through who reveal their potential via online platforms have been looked upon through snobbish eyes.

Vine’s team car crash last year made him the subject of mockery: “Sure he can produce the numbers in his shed, but can he do it on a wet Thursday in Asturias?” We all now know the answer to that. Professional cycling has a new star. A star has been born at La Vuelta, but who is Jay Vine? Remco Evenepoel We’ve said it already, at length, but it bears repeating: this is a whole new Remco we’re watching in this year’s Vuelta.

Although he had delivered on some of his promise with a Monument back in April, to truly be worthy of “the next Eddy Merckx” means making it count over three weeks. The jury is still out on that, because the road to Madrid is long. As the magic eight ball would “all signs point to yes.” He took over the race lead with a confident, composed, controlled performance and has shown every sign that he will do what it takes to keep it, even if that means sitting back when he might be inclined to lean forward.