Can Sepp Kuss Really Win This Vuelta? | Vuelta a España 2023 Stage 11 | THEMOVE+
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Lance Armstrong
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🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Spencer and Johan discuss Sepp Kuss’ position as the overall leader of the Vuelta a España and if he has a realistic chance of actually winning the race. They also break down what options rival GC teams, like Remco Evenepoel’s Soudal-QuickStep squad, have in terms of unseating one of the world’s best climbers on the remaining stages, which feature mountainous parcours and no remaining time trials.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Move Plus. |
| 0:06.9 | We are going to be doing these a little bit more often for the rest of the Vuelta, Spain, |
| 0:11.7 | since we had a positive reaction to the last one. |
| 0:14.1 | And the American Sepkouz is now somewhat securely in the GC lead after the time trial, |
| 0:20.1 | which was going to be the biggest test |
| 0:21.6 | he'd face at this race. I just wanted to ask you, Johan, if you were QuickStep, they didn't |
| 0:28.0 | do anything today on stage 11, Hazus Horado won from the breakaway. This is a classic vault |
| 0:32.6 | to stage, hockey stick profile, 160K long. Hazus Herato wins from the breakaway. G.C. Group comes through. Nothing happens. Quickstap actually blocks the road, keeps it quiet up to climb. Rimco does kind of a weird little sprint at the end for no reason whatsoever, just to waste energy, I guess. But if you were directing QuickStep, and we're getting into the Pyrenees at the end of this week, high, high mountains, really good for Sepkous. |
| 0:56.3 | How would you go about unseeding him? He has over a minute advantage on Remko-Ebentepole, and it seems like they're not interested to do it on these short explosive climbs. |
| 1:06.5 | Yeah. I mean, you know, today was, I mean, it's not an ideal stage today to do something because |
| 1:11.9 | even if it, I think even if it would have been for the win, we would probably have seen |
| 1:17.3 | a battle amongst the 10, 12 strongest riders with barely no differences. |
| 1:22.8 | So I think that they should start to get worried. |
| 1:28.5 | You know, SEPCUS is more than a minute ahead of Remko. |
| 1:33.5 | You know, the question is, where are they going to take this time back, right? |
| 1:39.5 | I think, of course, you know, they have a plan and they're going to try to attack him. |
| 1:44.6 | But they have to have in mind that Sepkus normally, when he gets dropped or when he pulls off on the last glance, he's been doing a lot of work already. |
| 1:57.7 | He has not done any of that, not just in the state, during these Velta. |
| 2:02.5 | Even in the stage he won, you know, he had his teammates work for him and then he finished |
| 2:07.9 | the job. So after yesterday's time trial and after him defending this red jersey really, |
| 2:14.9 | really well, I'm sure, I mean, and Remko actually yesterday said also, |
| 2:20.1 | you know, hats off to Sepp Kuzzi. He surprised me with his time trial. I think Remko was |
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