Sepp Kuss isn\u2019t slowing down now he\u2019s a husband, father, and owner of stage wins in all three grand tours.<\/p>\n
Visma-Lease a Bike confirmed Tuesday that Corado\u2019s climbing king will line up for his third grand tour of the season this weekend at the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a.<\/p>\n
Kuss is no stranger to the seemingly herculean task of racing all three of the Giro d\u2019Italia, Tour de France, and Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a in one season \u2013 he\u2019s done it before.<\/p>\n
And it worked out pretty well last time around.<\/p>\n
In 2023, GC Kuss famously capped his sweep of the grand tours by rising above a team leadership conflict with Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d and Jonas Vingegaard to clinch a palmar\u00e8s-defining red jersey victory.<\/p>\n
But don\u2019t expect to see Kuss throwing haymakers at 9* favorite Tadej Poga\u010dar in the hunt for a second maillot rojo<\/em> in the next month.<\/p>\n With Vingegaard out for the rest of the season, Visma-Lease a Bike is hell-bent on stage wins at this Vuelta.<\/p>\n Kuss will hook up with the returning Wout van Aert and rising speedster Matthew Brennan as \u201cThe Killer Bees\u201d look to bounce back from a wholly disappointing Tour de France.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no space for Matteo Jorgenson on Visma\u2019s Vuelta roster.<\/p>\n The Boise native suffered an off-key Tour de France due to crashes and sickness and is likely refocussing on the Canadian GPs and the Montr\u00e9al road worlds.<\/p>\n Wout van Aert Kuss will start this year\u2019s Vuelta with a whopping 54 race days already in his legs after what\u2019s been one of his best seasons yet.<\/p>\n The 31-year-old was key to Vingegaard winning the Giro d\u2019Italia in May and picked up a stage-win along the way.<\/p>\n His breakaway victory on one of the hardest days at the corsa rosa<\/em> made him the 116th rider in history to win a stage at all three grand tours.<\/p>\n Only an unusual loss of his trademark \u201cKuss cool\u201d prevented him from backing that up with a blockbuster Tour de France stage win on the mythical Alpe d\u2019Huez.<\/p>\n But after finishing 13th overall at the Tour last month, Kuss hinted to the media he wasn\u2019t done.<\/p>\n The Andorra resident famously loves racing in the heat and steeps of Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a and hasn\u2019t missed what he considers his \u201chome\u201d grand tour since 2018. And better still, the late-summer slot suits his slow-humming engine that gets better as the season goes on.<\/p>\n Few riders dare to try to ride all three grand tours in a season. Even fewer are robust enough to pull it off.<\/p>\n The last rider to successfully race all three three-weekers was \u2026 you guessed it \u2026 Kuss in 2023.<\/p>\n Some say the fatigue of Kuss\u2019 2023 grand tour sweep blunted his legs in 2024. But he clearly loves racing in Spain too much for that to be a problem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/vuelta-a-espana\/sepp-kuss-just-wont-stop-king-climber-to-race-his-third-grand-tour-of-the-season-at-vuelta-a-espana\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2278782513-scaled.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated August 18, 2026 07:44AM Sepp Kuss isn\u2019t slowing down now he\u2019s a husband, father, and owner of stage wins in all three grand tours. Visma-Lease a Bike confirmed Tuesday that Corado\u2019s climbing king will line up for his third grand tour of the season this weekend at the Vuelta […]<\/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-2099009","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\/2099009","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=2099009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2099009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2099009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2099009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Visma-Lease a Bike: Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a 2026<\/h3>\n
\nMatthew Brennan
\nSepp Kuss
\nJ\u00f8rgen Nordhagen
\nBen Tulett
\nSteven Kruijswijk
\nChristophe Laporte
\nBruno Armirail<\/p>\nWhy Sepp Kuss cannot get enough of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/h2>\n
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Kuss could become first man to complete the sweep since the last time he did it<\/h2>\n