{"id":826252,"date":"2026-07-26T01:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826252\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T01:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:04:10","slug":"american-cyclist-sepp-kuss-narrowly-avoids-a-horrific-crash-over-cliff-during-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826252\/","title":{"rendered":"American cyclist Sepp Kuss narrowly avoids a horrific crash over cliff during Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Saturday was the penultimate day of the Tour de France<\/a>, and it almost had what has to be one of the most heart-in-mouth moments the iconic race has seen in years.<\/p>\n

And the only reason it didn’t was all thanks to a perfectly placed catch fence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s Stage 20 took riders along some mountainous roads, and where there are mountains there are often cliffs.<\/p>\n

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American cyclist Sepp Kuss had a close call during the Tour de France’s penultimate stage on Saturday. (Photo by Luc Claessen\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

American Sepp Kuss was riding on one of these roads and was actually leading not too far from the end of the stage. He rounded a sweeping corner, but seemed to understeer way too wide and crashed into a low concrete barrier just as the catch fence was ending.<\/p>\n

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Fortunately, it was there because on the other side of that barrier was one heck of a drop-off.<\/p>\n

Wow. I don’t know if they stopped that catch fence there because they just figured no one would ever crash any farther than that or if they just ran out of supplies.<\/p>\n

Whatever the reason, Kuss has to be thrilled it was there.<\/p>\n

Cycling is not for the faint of heart, and there’s a good chance that if he had gone over that wall, it would’ve been over.<\/p>\n

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Sure, Kuss would be breathing a sigh of relief that he wasn’t tumbling down the side of the French Alps<\/a>, but it was a rough day at the office for him.<\/p>\n

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Sepp Kuss had two crashes on Saturday and finished the stage in third place. (Photo by Loic VENANCE \/ AFP)<\/p>\n

That was actually his second crash of the day, and it was more costly than the first, seeing as, that time, he was able to hang onto the lead.<\/p>\n

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The second crash? Not so much.<\/p>\n

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He coughed up the lead and wound up finishing the stage in third.<\/p>\n

According to Yahoo Sports, it would’ve been a big win for Kuss had it happened, as it would’ve been the first stage win for an American since he won a stage back in 2021.<\/p>\n

Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday was the penultimate day of the Tour de France, and it almost had what has to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,637,231762,82,23468],"class_list":["post-826252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-france","tag-outkick-sports","tag-sports","tag-trending-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826252","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=826252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}