Sepp Kuss

And if you were to take, I don't know, If you were to say that Pikachu, because he didn't do the Giro, ended up as, like, last place.

Kusa ended up with probably the most consistent Grand Tour performances of the year from a GC perspective.

So, yeah, all in all, Visma were insanely good.

Vuelta, I really don't think it could have gone much better.

And that was the first cycling team to do that in the history of cycling, which is pretty impressive.

And the person who won the last one was Sepp Kuss, who's also from the U.S., And the interesting part about how we won it on the very last day, the team looked at the sheet and they had all the three top riders.

And so they actually were first, second, and third on the podium, which was... of unheard of um so it was amazingly successful year for that team jumbo visma and then their lead sponsor pulled out and that team does not exist anymore so the the kind of

also old home cottage

And it's quite uncommon that the GC guys would start attacking on the very first climb of those four climbs.

And we ended up in a situation where on the very first climb out of Granada up this climb we call Monachil, they just started attacking straight away from there with Sepp Kuss going and then Richard Calipras also going and some of these guys had people in front in the breakaway.

to be satellite riders and basically the whole race kind of just exploded from, I think even like more than halfway in the stage.

And that was sort of a quite unexpected situation.

And then we were just in this group with Oscar.

And at that moment, we kind of knew his fifth place and sort of, it sounds nice on paper to say top five in GC.

That kind of got put into jeopardy by Sepp Kuss being up the road.

And our focus kind of returned into just trying to protect that white jersey and And I'd say that was probably one of the hardest stages and probably also one of the ones that sort of not necessarily caught us off guard, but just something unexpected kind of happened.

Welcome back.

So excited to bring you today's conversation with fan favorite Sepp Kuss.

It's been a while since he's been on the podcast.

2023, episode 229 was the last one.

Now you've got these guys really shining.

And I feel like the first one to almost flip into this new reality was Sepp Kuss.

He was like...

When he was coming up through the scene...

And he was behind.

And Vinayas, EOT, actually ended up winning that.

But, yeah, I remember Sepp Kuss on that Gateway Harley day.

Yeah, Gateway Harley.