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<\/p>\nHe didn’t have any other signs of having crashed, so why does the American’s 1000-watt smile suddenly feature a gap mid-race?<\/p>\n
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(Photo: JASPER JACOBS \/ BELGA MAG \/ Belga \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Published July 11, 2026 12:30PM<\/p>\n
Sepp Kuss<\/a> rocked up to the start line at the Tour de France<\/a> Friday with his trademark smile.<\/p>\n 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 Then everyone noticed something: a gap in his smile. What happened to his front tooth?<\/p>\n 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 \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 Campenaerts joked back that it happened when he opened up a gap on Remco in the sprint.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n So what happened?<\/p>\n 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 bidon.<\/p>\n 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He didn’t have any other signs of having crashed, so why does the American’s 1000-watt smile suddenly feature…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,54263,82,67671,62850,54267],"class_list":["post-797177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-parent_category-road","tag-sports","tag-tag-sepp-kuss","tag-tag-tour-de-france","tag-type-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797177","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=797177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}