2023 Tour de France Stage 18 Results & Recap
Stage 18 of the 2023 Tour de France is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Asgreen Upsets Sprinters
Kasper Asgreen (SOQ) and his three breakaway companions shocked the world after holding off a charging peloton on a stage destined to be a bunch gallop today on stage 18 of the Tour de France. The quartet started sprinting for the finish line with the peloton just metres behind, with Kasper Asgreen (SOQ) taking top honors ahead of Pascal Eenkhorn and Jonas Abrahamsen.
“Obviously the situation of our breakaway was not ideal," Asgreen said after the stage. "I would have preferred to break with 7 or 8 riders. It’s also one of the final stages of the Tour after really hard weeks. Yet we have seen small breaks making it to the finish against the bunch, so I didn’t rule out the possibility of winning. It’s been a team time trial all day long. My breakaway companions were just excellent out there. We all deserved to win because of how much work we put into the break. I’m happy to get away with it. It means so much with the period I had this year since I crashed at Tour de Suisse. I’ve come a long way, and to cap it off with a victory like this is amazing. I dedicate it to all the people who helped me through this hard time, and also to my team-mate Dries Devenyns in his last Tour and his last season.”
Jonas Vingegaard (TJV) remains in yellow, a comfortable seven minutes plus ahead of Tadej PogaÄŤar (UAD). The Dane is just counting down the days before Paris.
"It has not been a stressful day, yet it has been very fast in the end because there has been a big fight between the breakaway and the bunch," he said. "Still, I was happy to stay in the wheels of the sprinters’ teams the whole day. My strategy for the next few days is basically to keep myself focused and out of trouble. My teammates did an amazing job at that today. We will only relax once the Paris stage is finished."\n
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