Sepp Kuss is one day’s competitive racing away from becoming the first American man to win a Grand Tour title in a decade after he had no problem keeping the overall lead of the Spanish Vuelta on Friday.
Kuss, 29, had a stage win at the Tour de France two seasons ago and began the Vuelta as a support rider for Roglic and Vingegaard. But he took the lead on the eighth stage and has yet to relinquish it. The last American man to win a Grand Tour event, which also includes the Tour and Giro, was Chris Horner at the Vuelta since 2013.
Both Vingegaard, the two-time Tour champion, and Roglic, who has won the Vuelta three times, had closed the gap on Kuss until Thursday when they honored his lead over a mountainous 18th stage. Kuss leads Vingegaard by 17 seconds and Roglic by just over a minute. The rest of the field is well behind Roglic, so it would be an enormous surprise if the title does not go to a member of the dominant Dutch team. The question is whether Vingegaard and Roglic will try to overtake their teammate during the stage that includes 10 category-three climbs.“I will sleep well tonight because, while with the usual tension, today was a lot calmer than those recent mountain stages,” Kuss said.
The nearest chasers to the Jumbo-Visma trio are Spaniards Juan Ayuso, Mikel Landa, and Enric Mas, all between 4:00 and 4:30 off Kuss’ pace.The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day.
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