Kuss has great time at time trial.
Sepp Kuss was supposed to come back to earth today. A climber on a pan flat time trial course, there was a high probability he'd lose two minutes, easy. Even though he was wearing the red jersey of race leader, the world order would be restored and Kuss would return to his customary role as a mountain domestique. As Clint [...]
Fireworks and stalemates
A confusing, exciting stage. Up front in the eight man break, things were dramatic. At the base of the final climb, the Collado de la Cruz de Caravaca, they had five minutes on the red jersey group. Victory would clearly go to one of them. It turned out to be Lennard Kämna (Bora-Hansgrohe) who jumped away and held off Matteo Sobrero [...]
Evenepoel back in Vuelta GC battle, for now.
Remco Evenepoel is back, that's relatively speaking. After losing roughly 30 seconds yesterday to the Jumbo-Visma three-headed monster during his jour sans on stage seven, the reigning Vuelta champion was back in control. Control meaning he matched all the accelerations from Jonas Vingegaard, Primoz Roglic and Sepp Kuss. Nothing amazing happened, nothing catastrophic happened. In the final 200 meter sprint, [...]
Soupe has the juice
Geoffrey Soupe (TotalEnergies) pulled a wild upset in stage 7 of the Vuelta a Espana. The 35 year sprinter wasn't on anybody's list of potential winners, contenders or even dark horses. I doubt Monsieur Soupe woke up this morning, thinking, this is my stage, I shall show Kaden Groves who is boss. "I didn't think it was possible to win [...]
Sepp Kuss, champagne supernova
The man was thirsty, ok? Sepp Kuss was thrilled to win the Vuelta a Espana stage up the brutal Pico del Buitre climb. He was over-joyed, he was ecstatic, he was bubbly. Actually, extremely bubbly. Accepting the magnum of champagne awarded to the stage winner, Kuss proceeded to show everyone in the peloton how to par-tay. After the usual spraying of [...]
Jumbo-Visma, the Vuelta’s 3 headed monster
A super day for the super climbing domestique. Sepp Kuss attacked with three kilometers remaining on the Pico del Buitre to take a solo victory up at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre. Lenny Martinez (Groupama-FDJ) and Romain Bardet (Team dsm-firmenich) finished just behind with Martinez taking over the red jersey of race leader. It was a dramatic day of racing as Jumbo-Visma [...]