The Most SELFLESS Teammate in Cycling

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Filmed and edited by Garrett Horner

[Mybrother]

Wout Van Aerts interview was pure class. Thats how you ensure your teammates continue to give their all to support you.

[slayer]

Sepp is a prime example of a true teammate. What a selfless act of pure sacrifice Sepp did for Wout today. If not for Sepps sacrifice, Wout probably wouldn't have taken the stage win. And Wouts praise for Sepp was pure class. To me, this stage will go down as probably one of the best stages in Sepps career as a domestique. I think Sepp thought Wout jumped on his attack Chris.

[christopheralix]

Roglic pulls off and looks at Sepp Kuss in yellow and remembers the days when good ole seppy would have pulled him doing the work of 2 or 3 of his Bora teammates

[wildly_heather]

I heard that the Bora DS Patxi Villa came over from Movistar, which explains a lot of the knuckleheadisms!

[charlestoddsullivanforpres]

Bravo for Sepp and Visma. Wout's gratitude to Sepp was professional and sincere and a good gesture for his teammate.

[richardrack]

The legend of Sepp Kuss, ULTIMATE team rider, continues to grow!!💯
MUCH respect Durango dude!!🤙

[Nickrioblanco]

Sepp Kuss a prince of a teammate in an world of self centered riders. An enormous amount of knucklehead moves by many riders I attribute to selfishly seeking gory for themselves.

[jesselobo]

Yes, absolutely he went "Beast mode" for Wout and Visma today. Wow!

[Trypl_C]

By and large, you’re the BEST English speaking pro tour commentator Chris 🤙🏽🤙🏽

[gregorybrown]

You saw both teammates pull amazing efforts today in concert and you could certainly see the Wout appreciation in that grasp around Sepp. Thanks Lads for the Glory!

[L.O.K.I]

If Bora burnt their team on a cat 2 climb, it means they couldn't bring the gap down on Ben yesterday. Bora is not Visma or UAE. Roglic needs to work a lot harder to win this year, Vuelta.

[filippocevenini]

Kuss is a Great teammate but without Vlasov, Sivakov won this stage + Lipowitz was near to caught the group of Vlasov, where also Tiberi stayed but with that big pull of the crazy Vlasov Lipowitz ( Vlasov's teammate ) cannot close and lost the White Jersey for few seconds and Tiberi takes the White. What a knucklehead move from Vlasov

[seanpollonais]

Sepp did the best thing for himself with such a ride.

It is not clear that the team is 100% behind him for GC and he still has to win hearts and minds as they go into the last weeks.

This ride was remarkable, memorable and hopefully a savings deposit that he can cash out later.

RBH is all over the shop so Sepp does stand a chance if Visma focuses on him.

Chapeau to he and Wout.

[hynekjanousek]

I think Bora simply wants to prevent O'Connor from getting any rest so that the chances of him cracking on one of the weekend stages are a bit higher - but they did try to drop him too (he did a massive effort in the breakaway, what if he is too tired), plus get the bonus seconds and sort of dropped themselves in the process which looked a bit dumb.
By the way Vacek is pronounced with the Czech "c", a bit like ts is pronounced ad the end of "Streets". But I don't mind as long as he rides well enough to get his name pronounced on podcasts :-). Eurosport struggles too :-).

[Chiller]

Nice summary of a pretty unusual stage. Sepp Kuss showed he was the ultimate teammate. I’m glad Wout was able to finish off the effort. It’s good to see him having success after all his problems.

[gpsx]

Chris, can you talk a little about the strategy for the different riders, like OConnor, Roglic, and Almeida, given the big lead OConnor has? That lead is not insurmountable, but at the same time I'm afraid if OConnor tries sticking with Roglic all the time he might risk blowing himself up and losing it all in one stage.

[franciscopontesvelasco]

The vuelta is getting more and more interesting

[Cycle]

Chris you are CRUSHING IT!! Digging the arrow!

[johnlaujensen]

Great to see Sepp finally showing that he is way better as a domestique and first class help than a podium contender.

[CFCMahomet]

I believe that domestique Kuss is a much better role for Sepp than GC Kuss. He is a consummate teammate and does much better when that stress of leadership role isn’t on him.