Tour de France 2023: Kasper Asgreen wins stage 18 as Jonas Vingegaard maintains lead

The sprinters' teams were incapable to drawback the breakaway arsenic Asgreen and his companions someway held on

Kasper Asgreen claimed his archetypal Tour de France signifier triumph arsenic helium held connected to triumph signifier 18 from an epic breakaway.

But the leaders managed to enactment clear, with Dane Asgreen outsprinting Pascal Eenkhorn and Jonas Abrahamsen.

Compatriot Jonas Vingegaard maintained his comfy wide pb with conscionable 3 stages left.

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Two-time victor Tadej Pogacar remains 7 minutes and 35 seconds down the defending champion, with Britain's Adam Yates third.

Jasper Philipsen was hoping for his 5th signifier triumph of this year's Tour connected the level 184.9km way from Moutiers.

And though the Alpecin-Deceuninck rider managed to walk Victor Campenaerts metres from the finish, the peloton had near it fractionally excessively precocious to reel successful the remainder of the breakaway group.

More to follow.