Blow for Jonas Vingegaard! Sepp Kuss out of Visma's 2024 Tour de France team due to covid
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Actually this could be good for Visma and Matteo. Now Matteo can slot in where Sepp would have been as last man in the mountains. If Matteo is up to it, Matteo can be within seconds or minutes of Jonas. If Jonas falters then Visma's plan B (Matteo) is ready.
Plays well to American audiences too for commercial and media purposes.
Yeah but he’s less Slovenian ;-)
No seriously, Sepp is less exploitable American media-wise so they’ll be happy for a new sweetie, it’s like choosing between how to market and create buzz with either David Byrne or that woman everyone is now using to discuss every single current topic because she’s so mainstream as to be useable for anything.
Dang, what about those effective vaccines for Covid? Oh yes it would have been worse.
Not good, Sepp has been sick most of his season this far, really bad luck. Maybe he can help Jonas win the Vuelta this year.
Hope so. That would be a good way to end an undercooked season.
Kuss was nowhere near his 23‘ form this year anyway! This is prolly an improvement!
Based on past years, a huge blow. However, Kuss has been so bad this year that Lemmen is probably an improvement
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