![Team Jumbo-Visma's US rider Sepp Kuss slaps hands with spectators as he celebrates winning the sixth stage of the 2023 La Vuelta cycling tour of Spain on August 31, 2023.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/LA7Z5P3LMJHQTD3GL3PWMC6DDA.jpg?auth=5d67ffa8eb805ff58ea23b334202ed1e6dbd4448494c3aaaf1e90beceba72643&width=414&height=233&focal=2594%2C457)
Kuss on verge of victory at Spanish Vuelta. He’ll be 1st American man to win Grand Tour in a decade
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Kuss crossed the finish line of the 20th and penultimate stage flanked by Jonas Vingegaard, the two-time defending Tour de France winner
Kuss crossed the finish line of the 20th and penultimate stage flanked by Jonas Vingegaard, the two-time defending Tour de France winner
The 26-year-old Mäder crashed on a fast downhill road approaching the end of the mountainous fifth stage into La Punt