Tag: Sepp Kuss
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Why the 2024 Vuelta a Espana might have to pick its own favourites
Who will win the 2024 Vuelta a Espana? Pffsh. Who knows? Unlike the first two Grand Tours of the season, there’s little predictable about the upcoming trip round Spain. Last year the team that was then Jumbo-Visma, and is now Visma-Lease a Bike, arrived at the Vuelta armed with the guy who had just won…
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Sepp Kuss survives three Grand Tours and his own team-mates | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana
A strong, loyal and selfless servant on the crucial days when stage races are won and lost, Sepp Kuss is pretty much exactly what you’d mould if you had the power to shape the perfect team-mate. It was therefore something of a surprise when the two men he helped to victories in this year’s Giro…
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Can anyone place a foot on Jumbo-Visma’s podium? | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana
Remco Evenepoel bested all his overall rivals in the Stage 10 time trial and then won Stage 14 in the Pyrenees. If it weren’t for the small matter of shipping 27 minutes on Stage 13 in between those two triumphs, it would have been a pretty good week for last year’s Vuelta a Espana winner.…
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Three talking points after Stages 1-9 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana
I’m already a day late with this, so the time trial will have happened by the time you’re reading it. Let’s ignore that for the time being and instead make some sort of effort to sum up the first nine days of racing in this year’s Vuelta a Espana. I’d normally do a fuller recap,…