Sepp Kuss, leader of the Vuelta, “it’s the first time I’ve started the final time trial and nobody has caught up with me!”

In a discipline that is not his own and starting from a position that is unusual for him. He American Sepp Kuss defense this Tuesday at IRC of Valladolid 43 seconds of margin with respect to the Catalan Marc Soler and 2’22” compared to the Belgian Remco Evenepoel.

The question is whether the Belgian world time trial champion Remco Evenepoel will be able to drop from the podium in the runner’s Jumbo-Visma Sepp Kuss, but as the stage progressed it was seen that the Durango He will start again this Wednesday in the red jersey, after signing the 13th best CRI time.

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“It’s different, of course. I felt surprisingly relaxed. We’re only stage 10, I know there’s still a long way to go. I was happy to start the time trial in red. That was the first time I started the final time trial, the first time no one hugged me! I tried to keep it simple: enjoy the day and push as hard as I can,” Kuss said at La Vuelta.

The American recognized that “I had no idea if I would stay in the lead or not. Every time I passed an intermediate point, the director Addy (Engels) he said to me from the car: ‘good job’. I thought maybe I wasn’t that good, because he wasn’t giving me references. But I feel good and I’m happy with what I did.”

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And, facing the trying stages and after achieving the loot, Cuss believes that “this is a good advantage. The hardest stage is ahead, and a minute can be off a stage, or on a climb. It’s easy to look at the times now and extrapolate them to rest of the race. , but there are still very difficult and good stages ahead and many things can happen”.