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Sepp Kuss (USA) Wins Stage 15 Of The Tour de France
Big mountain stage today, with a total of 13,000 feet of climbing. Not bad for an American![Cycling News] - Jumbo-Visma climber first American in 10 years to win a Tour stage Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) won the first big Tour de France mountain stage in the Pyrenees, as attacks from the break of the day and amongst overall contenders produced some entertaining high-altitude racing on the road to Andorra. Ineos Grenadiers tried to shake-up the race on the 2408metre-high Port d'Envalira climb and Richard Carapaz made an attack on the final Col de Beixalis. That isolated Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) but he then coolly let the other riders attack each other for the podium spots, launching a couple of warning attacks and then sticking to Jonas Vingegaard’s wheel when the Jumbo-Visma rider tried a move. His teammate Kuss was more successful from the select-rider break that went away from the start of the 191.3km stage. He quickly got a gap on the steep, twisting slopes of the Col de Beixalis and then dived down to Andorra la Vielle to win alone. That team's main general classification rider, Primoz Roglic, abandoned earlier in the week after getting into a few crashes, so they turned this guy loose since he didn't have to ride in support of the main guy. With any luck, Sepp will be the main guy on a team in a few years. Posted by: Raj 2021-07-11 |
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