Defending champion Sepp Kuss leads the hopefuls aiming to step out of the shadow of the all-conquering Slovenian in Spain
here will be no Tadej Pogacar in this year’s Vuelta a España, which, following the Slovenian’s back-to-back domination of both theAs the Vuelta gets under way in Lisbon on Saturday with an individual time trial, the UAE Team Emirates rider will be elsewhere, planning towards his next target, the World Road Race Championships in Zurich.
In 2023, the easy-going climber from Durango in Colorado, found himself unexpectedly in a position to win the three-week Spanish race, but faced rivalry within his own team, from co-leaders Vingegaard and Roglic, now racing with the Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe team. After Saturday’s opening individual time trial, the Vuelta embarks on a route that is mainly mountainous, something that on paper at least should suit Kuss’s strengths. No less than eight mountain stages, and a series of uphill finishes, are bookended by two time trials, the longest coming on the final stage into Madrid.
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