
The opening team time trial at the 2023 Vuelta a España offered a dramatic start to the last Grand Tour of the season, with multiple crashes and defending Champion Remco Evenepoel calling the stage “super-dangerous”.
Amid complaints around the conditions and course itself, the arrangements for riders returning to their team buses also attracted criticism with Lotto–Dstny’s Thomas De Gendt describing a treacherous journey following the stage finish.