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Peter Stuart

Riders forced to ride 6km ‘through heavy traffic and in the dark without lights’ after Vuelta TTT

Soudal-Quick Step faced dark, wet and miserable conditions

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.

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