Visma | Lease a Bike rode a good stage at the
Criterium du Dauphiné, but it was only as good in the face of flying Tadej Pogacar who put a minute into Jonas Vingegaard in Combloux. One of the Dane's key domestiques
Sepp Kuss was absent on the slopes of the final ascent. And his help would've been certainly more than welcome.
"It was a hard, very explosive day," Kuss reacts in an interview with race organizers. In the decisive moments, we haven't seen Kuss at the front anymore. "The sensations were good," he replies. "We tried to make the race hard and attack a bit on the second to last climb but that was the real start of the final."