Tour de France 2023, Asgreen wins at Moutiers-Bourg. Vingegaard towards the final victory – Corriere.it

They take them, they take them, they take them, they didn’t take them. The 18th stage of the Tour de France must be a trivial stage, with arrival in Bourg en Bresse and intended for sprinters after the mountain hangover of the past few days and before the grand finale in the Vosges. And it had started from a trivial stage, with four brave men sprinting to the boarding from afar and then placed in the group’s sights for the inevitable sprint. But the tenacity of the four (not just any runners, Kasper Asgreen, Victor Campenaerts and Jonas Abrahamsen, Pascal Eenkhoorn) allowed the breakaway to arrive a few meters ahead of their pursuers and Asgreen to win a precious sprint for a Soudal short of successes and give the crowd great emotion. The Philipsen green jersey had no choice but to fight for fourth place. Worth noting was the withdrawal before the start of the gregarious prince of the Vingegaard yellow jersey, Wout Van Aert, who, having finished his task, returned to Belgium to attend the birth of his second child.