A terrible blow, the WorldTour Visma Lease a Bike team has just announced on its official website that Sepp Kuss, Jonas Vingegaard’s faithful lieutenant, has not fully recovered from COVID-19 and will not participate in the 2024 Tour de France. is replaced at short notice by the 28-year-old Dutchman Bert Lemmen.
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Vingegaard and Van Aert in uncertain form, Kuss out
The bad news keeps coming for Visma Lease a Bike training. Indeed, the 29-year-old American Sepp Kuss, winner of the 2023 Vuelta and last launch pad for the Jonas Vingegaard rocket, has just withdrawn from the Grande Boucle. Having recently contracted COVID-19, his team prefers to leave him at home and replace him with Bert Lemmen. This new professional should be devoted body and soul to his leader for 3 weeks. This hard blow adds to the uncertain form of the Danish leader, double winner of the Tour and of Wout Van Aert, the 2022 green jersey.
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