With simply 4 days to go till the beginning of the Tour de France, American Sepp Kuss, winner of the 2023 Vuelta and a key participant for Dane Jonas Vingegaard at Visma in defending his title, is not going to be initially in Florence on Saturday as a result of Covid-19.
“Sepp Kuss has not recovered sufficiently from a Covid an infection and won’t take part within the Tour,” says an announcement from the Visma crew, which is why he has been changed by the Dutchman Bart Lemmen.
Kuss’s exhausting loss from the Tour de France
Kuss, a key man within the crew and particularly within the mountain levels on the service of Jonas Vingegaard, needed to retire within the Dauphinéen, evidently in poor form on the finish of the seventh stage.
On Thursday, the Vuelta winner was nonetheless within the Tour crew that offered Visma-Lease a Bike, however the technicians have determined to relaxation the American for his full restoration.
Kuss’s substitute, Bart Lemmen, is 28 years outdated and new to the Visma crew. He doesn’t have expertise in grand excursions, however he was second within the Tour of Norway, the place he demonstrated good climbing expertise.
The Visma crew for the Tour might be composed of Jonas Vingegaard, Wout Van Aert, Matteo Jorgenson, Christophe Laporte, Tiesj Benoot, Wilco Kelderman, Jan Tratnik and Bart Lemmen.
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2024-06-26 01:20:16