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Jonas Vingegaard retained his overall lead in the Tour de France as Soudal Quick-Step’s Kasper Asgreen won stage 18 in Bourg-en-Bresse. Asgreen was one of four riders in the day’s breakaway to survive a high-speed pursuit by the speeding peloton, as the race left the Alps behind and entered the Rhone valley.
The four-rider attack, composed of Asgreen, Jonas Abrahamsen of Uno-X, and the Lotto-Dstny pair of Victor Campenaerts and Pascal Eenkhoorn, joined forces with 50 kilometres still to race and maintained a slim lead into the closing moments of the stage.
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