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    Sepp Kuss Victory Ride Announced for Tomorrow

    Eric Schlange
    By Eric Schlange
    September 18, 2023
    LAST UPDATED September 19, 2023
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    Road racing fans have followed a dramatic Vuelta a España for the past few weeks. It began with a rain-slicked TTT starting block in waning daylight, and it ended with American Sepp Kuss of Team Jumbo-Visma as the surprise winner!

    Related: read “An Interview with Sepp Kuss On Alpe du Zwift” >

    Kuss began the race as a super domestique, having completed this year’s Giro d’Italia and Tour de France where teammates Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard took home respective wins. Roglic and Vingegaard were both in the Vuelta, and both were considered top podium contenders.

    Nobody expected an overall win from Sepp, “The Eagle of Durango.” But many fans had suspected “GC Kuss” was capable of such an achievement.

    Once he got into the breakaway and took the red jersey, the world wanted to see him keep it. (When have we last seen cycling fans was so galvanized around a single rider?) Despite some strategic snafus, Jumbo-Visma eventually boarded the unstoppable GC Kuss train, supporting him to victory and becoming the first team in history to win all three grand tours in one year.

    Kuss is the first American in 10 years to win a grand tour (Chris Horner won the Vuelta in 2013).

    Tomorrow, he’ll will be doing a victory lap (several, actually) on Zwift. Join in and message him your congratulations! The ride takes place at 12:30pm UTC (7:30am EDT/4:30am PDT).

    This is a 45-minute ride at a social pace (1-2.5W/kg). We’ll be on the Volcano Circuit route in Watopia.

    Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/383860 >

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      Carsten Re. from Germany
      Carsten Re. from Germany
      15 days ago

      Jumbo-Vismas Grand Tours Trilogy 🏆🏆🏆 was outstanding … and Sepps amazing GC win was super surprising and well deserved in one.

      Besides, I pray for a Jersey unlock (of the in-game kit “TdF Edition ’23”) because I didn’t have the chance to take part at Jonas’ Victory Ride in July.

      Ride on cycling fans all over the world 😎🙋🏻‍♂️

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      Gregory Edwards
      Gregory Edwards
      15 days ago

      This is awesome. Awesome that Zwift hosting this, unfortunately I can’t it.

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      Chris Higham
      Chris Higham(@chris-higham)
      14 days ago

      It’s a shame he only joined for 15 minutes!

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      Matthew
      Matthew
      13 days ago

      Sepp Kuss as a GC rider on Jumbo isn’t going to be an everyday thing. And reality is that he is not as strong as Joans or Roglic 90% of the time. However, with full leads of a GT team and a good training block he could win a Vuelta or just maybe a Giro. I don’t think as far as fitness and lack of pure explosion of guys like Joans, Roglic, Remco (bad day cost him) and a few others that he can win the TDF. On a different team, with good domestics he could perhaps control a stage… Read more »

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      Colin Jones
      Colin Jones
      12 days ago

      I hope everybody held back and let him win.

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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      12 days ago
      Reply to  Colin Jones

      Would have been hilarious if Roglic joined up and outsprinted him to the line…

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