Greig Leach

The directors of the broadcast used the helicopter shots to figure out just who was in what echelon out on the road. As they check out the front of the front group it was easy to spot the Ochre Jersey of the race leader, Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates). He was being led through the rotation into the wind by his teammate. They were accompanied by two riders for Movistar, Johan Jacobs and Ivan Romeo along with Alex Baudin (Ag2r-Citroen). This group was just the tip of the roughly fifty riders who had managed to get away from another eighty riders on the straight roads into the town of Willunga. Barring distaster, it seemed that Vine had ensured that he would wear the leader's jersey into the final stage of the Tour Down Under tomorrow. Will he still be wearing it at the end of the final stage of the race? He does have 15 seconds on Simon Yates (Jayco-Alula) and Pello Bilbao (Bahrain-Victorious) who are now tied for second place.