2023-09-17 23:10:00
The fountains of the famous Cibeles fountain in front of Madrid’s town hall were spraying, the champagne on the podium flowed in almost similar streams: the jumbo trio made up of Vuelta winner Kuss, Tour champion Vingegaard and Giro winner Primoz Roglic celebrated their triple success at the Spain -tour.
This extremely rare “club championship” – the Kas team last occupied the entire Vuelta podium in 1966 – crowned a season the likes of which cycling has never seen before. Whether in Rome, Paris or Madrid – in the end a rider from the Dutch team was always celebrated as the overall winner of the 2023 Grand Tours following three weeks.
A dominance that raises questions, which the stars still faced following the last mountain stage. In particular, Kiss, who rose from noble assistant to winning driver, made his position unmistakably clear: “For me personally, cheating or doping is simply out of the question,” emphasized the 29-year-old, because then it would be “no sport” for him anymore.
Kuss explained his point of view in detail: “Sport also includes defeats and if you cheat or do something that is forbidden, then you are afraid of losing. But that is one of the most important things in sport: accepting that sometimes you are not good enough is.”
Wild spectacle at the end – kiss crowned: the highlights
Vingegaard: “I’m 100 percent sure”
The two-time Tour winner Vingegaard, crown prince of the US climbing artist in Madrid, also did not avoid the critical question, but emphasized once once more that he stands for clean sport – and also has full trust in his teammates. “I’m 100 percent sure that my two colleagues, like me, won’t take anything,” emphasized the Dane.
As in July, the dominator of the last two editions of the Tour of France showed understanding for the doubts regarding what some observers saw as the borderline good performances of the drivers from the Dutch racing team. “Of course we understand the skepticism, but people also need to know how much we sacrifice and how extremely detailed we approach everything,” said Vingegaard.
From the 26-year-old’s point of view, it is precisely this last point that has been the decisive advantage of the dominant team in recent years. “In this team we do everything perfectly and that makes such a big difference that people don’t even realize the extent of it. I think it’s always good to be skeptical, especially when a team is so strong. As long as there are no accusations and as long as we talk regarding it because of the things that happened 20 years ago, because I think that will prevent it from happening once more,” explained the triumphant from the Tourmalet, where the three Jumbo captains had achieved a triple victory It had never been seen before on a mountain stage in Grand Tours.
Jumbo gala on the Tourmalet: soloist Vingegaard wins the queen stage
Roglic understands skepticism regarding top performance
Roglic also agreed with this point of view: “It’s not wrong to have a critical look as long as we’re all talking regarding it,” said the Slovenian, whose attempt to set the Vuelta record of four overall victories ended on the bottom step of the podium . “Hopefully we can ensure that what happened 20 years ago does not happen once more,” he agreed with Vingegaard.
He also repeated his teammate’s assurance almost word for word: “I can say with 100 percent certainty that my two colleagues are not doing anything that is not allowed. And that also applies to me.”
“Suffered more than at Angliru”: Kiss on the final stage
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