US professional cyclist Sepp Kuss is on the verge of overall victory at the 78th. Vuelta a España. When the Dutch won Wout Poels (Bahrain-Victorious) on the penultimate stage in Guadarrama, the 29-year-old defended from team Jumbo-Visma took the red jersey confidently. At the finale on Sunday in Madrid, the leader is traditionally no longer attacked.
The third category won on the longest section of 207.8 kilometers with ten poisonous mountain classifications Poels from a leading group, narrowly ahead of the Belgian Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) and thus prevented the fourth victory of the day for the still reigning VueltaChampions. Lennard Kämna (Wedel/Bora-hansgrohe), who was also part of the escape group, showed a strong performance, but missed his second stage success in eighth place.
Kiss resists Attack attempts away
Kuss, who finished 10:37 minutes behind, fought back with the help of his teamcolleagues Jonas Vingegaard and Primoz Roglic rejected all attempts to attack – the trio crossed the finish line arm in arm. Also trip-Winner Vingegaard and giro–champion Roglic, who had attacked their regular helper during the week, was, according to the team-Director no longer active. In the overall ranking, Kuss is 17 seconds ahead Vingegaard and 1:08 minutes ahead of Roglic.
Jumbo-Visma will make cycling history on Sunday. It’s never been like that before team managed to win all three major national tours in one calendar year. Roglic had in May Giro d’Italia, Vingegaard in July at the Tour de France triumphs.