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Tour de France: Kuss crashes twice, loses stage win

From Le Figaro · () French

Translated from French, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • Sepp Kuss suffered two crashes in the final kilometers of the Tour de France's penultimate stage.
  • The American rider had been leading the stage and was on track for a solo victory before the incidents.
  • Richard Carapaz and Remco Evenepoel passed Kuss after his second fall, with Carapaz taking the stage win.

American cyclist Sepp Kuss experienced a dramatic turn of fortune on the penultimate stage of the Tour de France, crashing twice in the closing kilometers while seemingly on his way to a solo victory. The Visma-Lease a Bike rider had built a significant lead and appeared set to claim his first stage win of this Tour.

Kuss fell for the first time in a tunnel with just over seven kilometers remaining. Despite this scare, he quickly remounted and maintained a small advantage. However, less than a kilometer later, he suffered a much more serious second crash on a descent. He veered off course and was caught by safety nets, narrowly avoiding a fall into a ravine.

This second incident allowed Richard Carapaz of EF Education-EasyPost to overtake Kuss and secure the stage win. Remco Evenepoel also passed the shaken American shortly before the finish line, leaving Kuss to finish behind both riders.

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Originally published by Le Figaro in French. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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