Some 200 metres after the finish in the Clásica Jaén Paraiso Interior, Sepp Kuss (Visma-Lease A Bike) ground to a halt and, one recovery drink quickly downed, the 2023 Vuelta a España champion exchanged initial post-race impressions with teammate and fellow breakaway Jan Tratnik, who was third behind solo winner Oier Lazkano (Movistar).
“Two podiums in three days, not bad,” Kuss pointed out to Tratnik, already second in the Vuelta Ciclista a Murcia on Saturday, with a mud-stained grin. But Kuss’s own performance on Monday, on the backroads and gravel pathways of eastern Jaén was also more than remarkable in its own way, too.
