Team Visma | Lease a Bike had an historical battle as last year's Vuelta a España, as all three podium spots were taken by the same team and all three wanted to win.
Sepp Kuss ultimately succeeded, and he has
Mikel Landa to partially thank for that.
The story was one that developed quite interestingly. Kuss joined the breakaway and won the first mountain stage of the race, building up a lead of several minutes over his teammates Jonas Vingegaard and Primoz Roglic; and the rest of the competition. At first he was thought of as an outsider who could play, with this, a support role for his leaders who now had less, responsibility, but it turned out to be a much bigger story in development as Kuss climbed like never before.
