{"id":2039031,"date":"2026-07-11T18:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2039031"},"modified":"2026-07-11T18:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:30:31","slug":"what-happened-to-sepp-kuss-front-tooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2039031","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to Sepp Kuss\u2019 Front Tooth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sepp-kuss-missing-tooth-tour-de-france.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-wrap fp-contentTarget\">\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"mb-base-loose flex flex-wrap gap-(--spacing-base)\"><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"fp-remove flex items-center justify-start gap-(--spacing-base-tight)\"><span class=\"font-utility-2 font-bold text-primary\">Andrew Hood<\/span><\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Published July 11, 2026 12:30PM<\/div>\n<div class=\"mt-base-loose\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sepp Kuss rocked up to the start line at the Tour de France Friday with his trademark smile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aspect-video\">\n<p>Though Tadej Poga\u010dar gave the peloton a drubbing the previous day, the Colorado climber sounded much like his usual self, and ready to empty the tank for Jonas Vingegaard.<\/p>\n<p>Then everyone noticed something: a gap in his smile. What happened to his front tooth?<\/p>\n<p>There were no cuts, scrapes, or bandages. No obvious sign of a crash. But a small chunk was clearly missing from Kuss\u2019 otherwise high-wattage smile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to bite the bullet, but sometimes the bullet bites back and you chip your tooth,\u201d Kuss joked on Visma-Lease a Bike teammate Victor Campenaerts\u2019 daily Tour vlog. \u201cNo interview requests from here on out I hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Campenaerts joked back that it happened when he opened up a gap on Remco in the sprint.<\/p>\n<div id=\"message-list_1783794025.363189\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DapvanYIMsS\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>So what happened?<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-placeholder-wrapper relative w-full border-t border-b border-border-light col-span-full my-3 md:col-span-10 md:col-start-2\">\n<div class=\"mb-[30px] min-h-[30px] text-center\"><span class=\"font-utility-4 font-medium tracking-[1px] text-neutral-500 uppercase\">ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-placeholder -mt-[30px] mb-[30px] flex min-h-[250px] w-full items-center justify-center\">\n<div class=\"w-full \">\n<div id=\"in-content-leaderboard-in-content-leaderboard-I0-P0-CMI0\" class=\"flex justify-center text-left\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Visma team officials confirmed that Kuss did not crash. The dental drama unfolded during Thursday\u2019s brutal mountain stage over the Col du Tourmalet. A crown on one of Kuss\u2019 front teeth, dating back to an earlier incident, came loose while he was drinking from a <i>bidon<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, he\u2019s too busy right now to schedule a visit to the dentist. It\u2019s still two weeks to Paris, so the crown has to wait.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><span hidden aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"mb-base-loose flex flex-wrap gap-(--spacing-base)\"><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"fp-remove flex items-center justify-start gap-(--spacing-base-tight)\"><span class=\"font-utility-2 font-bold text-primary\">Andrew Hood<\/span><\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Published July 11, 2026 12:30PM<\/div>\n<div class=\"mt-base-loose\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/tour-de-france\/what-happened-sepp-kuss-missing-front-tooth-tour-de-france\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sepp-kuss-missing-tooth-tour-de-france.jpg&#8221;] Andrew Hood Published July 11, 2026 12:30PM Sepp Kuss rocked up to the start line at the Tour de France Friday with his trademark smile. Though Tadej Poga\u010dar gave the peloton a drubbing the previous day, the Colorado climber sounded much like his usual self, and ready to empty the tank for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-2039031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2039031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2039031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2039031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2039031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}