At Saturday dawned in Spain, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) looked on track to capture another stage win in the 2023 Vuelta a Espana, but at the end of the day, it was Wout Poels (Bahrain Victorious) who ultimately had the legs after a gruelling day of racing in the Sierra de Guadarrama.
Remco Evenepoel became one of the youngest riders in history to amass 50 pro wins taking victory in Stage 18 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana on a tough day of racing that contained five classified climbs, including the brutally steep Puerto de la Cruz Linares, a 9.8km ascent averaging 8.6%.
Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceucninck) takes his second sprint win in Stage 5 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana, besting Filippo Ganna of the Ineos Grenadiers squad by a tire width.
Lotto Dstny rider Andreas Kron took an emotional stage win at the 2023 Vuelta a Espana, dedicating the win to his fallen teammate Tijl De Decker
Surviving a break that started just 10km into the stage, Kasper Asgreen (Soudal – Quick-Step) won the final sprint against his 3 attack group mates to win Stage 18 of the 2023 Tour de France.
Carlos Rodriguez took advantage of the rivalry between Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar to catch them and ride away from them in the downhill of col de Joux-Plane to win Stage 14 of the 2023 Tour de France and become the youngest-ever Spanish stage winner at the Tour.
Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) survived the breakaway to win Stage 13 of the 2023 Tour de France atop the Col du Grand Colombier on Bastille Day.
After a 31km solo ride at the front, Spanish rider Ion Izagirre of the Cofidis squad won Stage 12 of the 2023 Tour de France.
UAE Team Emirates hit the main goal of the kick-off of the 2023 Tour de France, winning Stage 1 (Bilbao-Bilbao , 182 km) and obtaining the first yellow jersey with Adam Yates
Alberto Dainese of Team DSM took a photo finish sprint over Jonathan Milan and Michael Matthews to win Stage 17 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia.