{"id":258717,"date":"2025-07-12T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T10:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258717\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T10:46:14","slug":"those-marathon-alps-will-be-a-real-test-sepp-kuss-backs-jonas-vingegaard-to-make-a-difference-against-pogacar-in-tour-de-france-high-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258717\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThose \u2018marathon\u2019 Alps will be a real test\u201d \u2013 Sepp Kuss backs Jonas Vingegaard to &#8216;make a difference&#8217; against Pogacar in Tour de France high mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Dauphin\u00e9 I took another step up in my preparation which<br \/>\nwas very useful,\u201d said Kuss, who won the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a in 2023 and is once<br \/>\nagain a central figure in <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/team-visma-lease-a-bike\" title=\"Team Visma | Lease a Bike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Team Visma <\/a>| Lease a Bike\u2019s Tour strategy. \u201cMy main<br \/>\njob\u2019s in the mountains, as in the early stages it&#8217;s difficult for me to be up<br \/>\ntowards the front, so my work was more internal, being as far up there as I<br \/>\ncould be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kuss believes the terrain that lies ahead will suit<br \/>\nVingegaard far better than the punchy finishes of the first week, \u201cThose<br \/>\n\u2018marathon\u2019 Alps will be a real endurance test, and that\u2019s where we think Jonas<br \/>\ncan make a difference. If one rider is stronger than another, then those<br \/>\nstrategies aren\u2019t so important, but we have to use our strength as a team,<br \/>\ntoo.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Dauphin\u00e9 I took another step up in my preparation which was very useful,\u201d said Kuss, who won&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-258717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114839865600820522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}