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Saturday was nan penultimate time of nan Tour de France, and it almost had what has to beryllium 1 of nan astir heart-in-mouth moments nan iconic title has seen successful years.
And nan only logic it didn't was each acknowledgment to a perfectly placed catch fence.
Saturday's Stage 20 took riders on immoderate mountainous roads, and wherever location are mountains location are often cliffs.
American cyclist Sepp Kuss had a adjacent telephone during nan Tour de France's penultimate shape connected Saturday. (Photo by Luc Claessen/Getty Images)
American Sepp Kuss was riding connected 1 of these roads and was really starring not excessively acold from nan extremity of nan stage. He rounded a sweeping corner, but seemed to understeer measurement excessively wide and collapsed into a debased actual obstruction conscionable arsenic nan drawback obstruction was ending.
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Fortunately, it was location because connected nan different broadside of that obstruction was 1 heck of a drop-off.
Wow. I don't cognize if they stopped that drawback obstruction location because they conscionable figured nary 1 would ever clang immoderate farther than that aliases if they conscionable ran retired of supplies.
Whatever nan reason, Kuss has to beryllium thrilled it was there.
Cycling is not for nan faint of heart, and there's a bully chance that if he had gone complete that wall, it would've been over.
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Sure, Kuss would beryllium breathing a sigh of alleviation that he wasn't tumbling down nan broadside of nan French Alps, but it was a unsmooth time astatine nan agency for him.
Sepp Kuss had 2 crashes connected Saturday and vanished nan shape successful 3rd place. (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP)
That was really his 2nd clang of nan day, and it was much costly than nan first, seeing as, that time, he was capable to bent onto nan lead.
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The 2nd crash? Not truthful much.
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He coughed up nan lead and coiled up finishing nan shape successful third.
According to Yahoo Sports, it would've been a large triumph for Kuss had it happened, arsenic it would've been nan first shape triumph for an American since he won a shape backmost successful 2021.
Matthew Reigle is simply a writer for OutKick.
