{"id":796919,"date":"2026-07-12T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796919\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:02:10","slug":"sepp-kuss-is-riding-in-the-tour-de-france-with-a-broken-tooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796919\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepp Kuss is riding in the Tour de France with a broken&#8230; tooth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The climbers at the Tour de France can briefly catch their breath after the stage over the Tourmalet, provided everything goes according to plan. That is not entirely the case for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/sepp-kuss\" title=\"Sepp Kuss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sepp Kuss<\/a>, the American mountain domestique for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/visma-lease-a-bike\" title=\"Visma | Lease a Bike\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Visma | Lease a Bike<\/a>, who has broken one of his front teeth.<\/p>\n<p>Kuss underlined his credentials as an excellent climber during Stage 6, eventually finishing in a group that also included Isaac del Toro, Remco Evenepoel and Paul Seixas. The American, who lives in Andorra, could no longer help team leader Jonas Vingegaard after Tadej Poga\u010dar accelerated, but he still produced a strong performance of his own in the first major mountain test.<\/p>\n<p>One day later, Kuss was suddenly riding around with a broken front tooth\u2014something Victor Campenaerts naturally made sure to highlight in his vlog. \u201cSometimes you bite the bullet, but hopefully I won\u2019t get too many interview requests,\u201d the ever-cheerful Kuss joked in his Belgian teammate\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DapvanYIMsS\/?hl=nl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> daily video <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more below the photo!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sepp-kuss-6a535860a2ade.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"sepp-kuss\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how Kuss broke his front tooth. The next mountain stage is scheduled for Tuesday, when the Tour de France peloton heads toward Le Lioran. Before then, the riders can look forward to a well-earned rest day on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Campenaerts&#8217; vlog featuring Sepp Kuss with a broken front tooth<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The climbers at the Tour de France can briefly catch their breath after the stage over the Tourmalet,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,15223,82,262636,10761],"class_list":["post-796919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sepp-kuss","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france-2026","tag-visma-lease-a-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}