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News & Racing<\/a><\/p>\n The American soloed to victory out of the day-long breakaway and joined the select group of riders to have won stages of all three Grand Tours.<\/p>\n Cor Vos<\/p>\n It’s not quite #GCKuss, but American climber Sepp Kuss got his biggest personal result since his stunning 2023 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a overall win, soloing to victory at the Giro d’Italia on the race’s queen mountain stage.<\/p>\n Kuss, who’s spent most of his three weeks in Italy riding superbly in support of Visma-Lease a Bike leader Jonas Vingegaard’s overall campaign, joined the day’s big breakaway and hung tough over five categorized climbs before counterattacking on the sixth and final ascent to Alleghe and going clear in the last two kilometers.<\/p>\n With the win, Kuss joins the group of riders to have won a stage of all three Grand Tours. He said post-race that the win had not been the main plan, but that his team gave him the green light to go in the break. Jonas Vingegaard himself had little trouble on the day, with solid support from other Visma teammates and ably matching all moves on the final climb to keep a firm grip on his race lead with two days to go.<\/p>\n The main challenge was to win the pink jersey with Jonas, and so far it’s looking good, but when they told me the other night that I had the chance to go in the break, I knew I had to seize the opportunity.<\/p>\n \u2013Kuss on the chance to win a Giro stage<\/p>\n [race_result id=13 stage_id=89984 count=5 gc=0 year=2026]<\/p>\n [race_result id=13 stage_id=89984 count=5 gc=5 year=2026]<\/p>\n How it happenedWith almost 5,000 meters of climbing, stage 19 was always going to be one for the climbers. The question was just whether glory would go to the breakaway or the GC group. In the end it was a little of both.With just one more stage left before the expected sprint finish in Rome, the fight for the break was fierce, with the composition not fully established until after 50 km of racing. The 20-odd group was the usual motley “last chance saloon” makeup of a third-week Grand Tour stage. There were teams that hadn’t yet won a stage \u2013 your Movistars and Pinarello-Q36.5s; teams that had, like\u00a0UAE Team Emirates-XRG, EF Education-EasyPost; a few dark-horse GC candidates \u2013 Tudor’s Michael Storer and Lidl-Trek’s Derek Gee-West \u2013 looking for a stage or a bump up the standings; various lieutenants of GC riders like Visma-Lease a Bike’s Sepp Kuss and Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe’s Giulio Pellizzari; and riders vying for other jersey competitions, chiefly Lidl-Trek’s Giulio Ciccone in the maglia azzurra of best climber.<\/p>\n This post is for subscribers only Already have an account? Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n Did we do a good job with this story?<\/p>\n \n \ud83d\udc4dYep![\"Joe](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Joe-Lindsey-150x150.jpg\")
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