This time last year Jay Vine was in a neck brace, and just in the early stages of a recovery from a horrible accident at Itzulia Basque Country that had put him in intensive care with multiple fractured vertebrae and facing a challenging recovery ahead.
"I could have been retired after three and a half seasons," Vine reflected, as he sat in the lobby of Hilton in Adelaide at the Tour Down Under while starting a season that might never have happened had some of the worst-case scenarios after that fall on stage 4 of the Spanish WorldTour race materialised.
