Sepp Kuss Vuelta Defense Just got HARDER 

Finally, Victor Campenaerts is our man 😂

I had both the TdFF and the Vuelta running on a split screen, but the latter was a sideshow. The culminating Queen stage of the TdFF finishing on the Alpe d'Huez was just magnificent.

Hi Chris, José Azevedo was commenting the stage in Portuguese eurosport, he mentioned about the American victories in Vuelta and he said that he will never forget as sport director your victory in 2013. Cheers.

Never thought of having my hometown on the Chris show (first images are from Torres Vedras). A lot of people here on the roads of Portugal supporting the riders 🦋👊

If you didn’t watch the TDFF you missed one for the ages today!

Arrow graphic game is especially strong up there on the Vuelta 2024 stage two edition of The Butterfly Effect.

It feels like there's little bit of a curse on Visma this year.

you gotta cover the final stage of the TdFF amazing stage

Excellent analysis. Thanks Chris. Can you also please analyse the TdF Femme last stage up Alpe d’Huez? Would love to see that.

Thanks Chris, great review The mistake WVA made was that he should have been stuck on the wheel of Groves and only gone when Kaden went. As it went WVA lthen ed Groves out for 50m who said thanks very much see you in the ducha. Wearing red tomorrow is no benefit to VLB. T hat crash that took out Tarling was due in part due to the earlier crash that forced him to the far left and partly due to appalling road safety from the organisers. Right up to the crash point there was no ditch and kerb and the road surface was wider plus the surface flat all the way to the outer fencing then it suddenly narrowed by a meter and a ditch plus kerb appeared. That danger should have been marked much more clearly by a brightly colored pole just before.the narrowing

I am a fan of Dylan Van Baarle because I love his versatility. I honestly thought Visma signed him because of his strength in the classics. However, on this Vuelta team, Van Baarle will be very much missed. Kruijswijk is not young. And Visma needs to find at least one and probably two climbing domestiques. BTW, a shout out to the happy domestique, Robert Gesink who will be retiring at the end of this season.

Looking fwd to the Tour de France Femmes analysis today! :)

Maaaan, that crash with narvaez and tarling was a nasty one, at least Roglic still not down 🤣🤣🤣 thanks chris and garrett, finest coverage as always

We were there in Ourém at the finish line. First visit to a grand tour, and it was super! Supporting all 3 Portuguese 🇵🇹 riders, and Louis Meintjes 🇿🇦

Victor C. Is a Rockstar to us on the Chris Horner podcast. He is the man. I can't wait until we get to see what kinda fourm Sepp has in the mtns aginst Prizmo.

I sure agree with shakmaker below. Wow! The TfF femmes was an amazing race. Ms. Vollering is amazing in defeat by 4 seconds. Go Sepp, Jim from near Durango.

Victor is "our man" no question!! 🤗

Chris, did you watch the right peacock channel. While TdeF femme provided one of the most exciting race in decades, the guys at the Vuelta were doing a club ride in Portugal showing how to properly relief yourself at 35km/hr. Loads of strategy to talk about on Alpes d’Huez… less to say about Vuelta today.

That’s one hell of a gutter!

I hope NBC re-hires you for the 2025 cycling season!

Another excellent video Chris

Thanks Chris. 👍

My man WVA in red! 👌👊👍

Chris I gotta hear your thoughts on Vollering today!

Always a good analysis from Chris. It's so early anything can happen but that's a big loss.

So Chris, you got me wondering. When Victor gets out in front, do you stay seated on the Chesterfield or do you jump up and down on it? 😀

good on ya Wout!

I need some new lights for my bike but how in the hell can a bike light cost more than the light cluster for my car?

Lupine are amazing!

What if Sepp just rides for Wout? Crazy powerful duo.

Hey Chris, Can you get a message to Aleksandr Vlasov? His lackadaisical disposal of his water bottles with 78.1 kilometers to go in Stage 3 almost crashed out the peloton as the water bottle rolled right back into the path of the peloton - what a loser!

Chris, you know there was another bike race yesterday in which race tactics played a role.

Seppy had a dream team last year and this years team isn't even close. No gifts for Seppy this year.

Just SAD PoGi didn’t take your advice and go for the Triple 👑.

I tweeted at SDWorx that in your words, they were knuckleheads for costing Vollering the TDF Femmes. But yes...I think it would be super interesting to see if you think Demi should have still won if they switched up their tactics today, including Demi not waiting in the valley.

They should just change 2nd place to be called WVA place

Last year everything lined up for Visma, this year not so much. Wout and Jonas had heavy crashes and Sepp got sick for a long period and now Van Barlee broke his collar bone.

Sepp is going nowhere this year, they will not let him get big time in a break away this year and he will just go backwards as the race progresses....

It's crazy that a 120mi course with over 9k ft of climbing is a sprinter's stage.

(Van "Baarl", not barley! 👍🏼) Thanks for the breakdown; love the Butterfly Effect!

Slow starters here but watching of course... Hi Chris! 👋🦋👊

victor was happy my man victor campenaerts he would hear chris say 😀

Really generous of Affini and WvA to lead out Kaden Groves, _seeing as Alpecin didn't have enough guys to go from 1.4k on in._ 🤔

Perhaps you ought to analyze the tactics by sdwx in this year's tdff was definitely the difference...not sure how much you watched.

Women's Tour de France was so much interesting 😊

cian is stated to be co leader but can transform to domestique if sepp kuss takes the red in the mountains.

I still say watch out for McNulty. I have a feeling La Vuelta could be a wild finish to this year's grand tours.

Don’t know why the team leader is going back for bidons?

"Bonufication" is my new favorite cycling term.

I love to watch Wout, but I always feel sorry for Visma's GC rider. Wout pulls too many resources from the team in order to win. Jonas and now Sepp have a hard time when team support is elsewhere. Staying with your GC rider seems like a sound tactic that Visma ignores. Just sayin! Thanks again Chris.

I guess, V-LAB lost their unlucky charm. Since Primoz left V-LAB, their riders has been crashing left and right (which is quite unusual for V-LAB). I guess The lady crash luck now landed on Van Barle. The guy has been crashing since the beginning of year. He hasn't had a chance to stay upright. Poor that guy.

Let's be fair his win last year was a gift by visma , they had Vingegaard and Roglic working for him , he is a decent rider but in normal circumstances he'd never win a grand tour

Demi Vollering was not helped because she was going to leave the team as announced earlier this year and there is a rift in the team, hence she was attacked and no one helped her when she fell...

It’s criminal how you didn’t cover the Tour de France Femmes. Contender for best finish to a TDF.

Any reason why WVA is on the green jersey and not Vacek who is on 2nd place I think?

Think Visma don't need to chase the breaks now. Groves beating Wout 2-0 is quite enough. Crowds yesterday getting involved with crashes. Not sure if Tourists know how to watch a bike race or not?? On usual busy stages the crowds seem to be a bit more educated unless there's beer involved 🙈🍻🍻🍻🍻 Tarling not dropping back after 4km and being too involved with the bumping of the Sprinters. It was narrow so hard to pull out of the line I guess. Hope he's OK 🤕

3 Crashes, but Roglic did not hit the deck? Amazing 😅

Campanaert is everyonne's man now

Bar-Lee 😂

I hope VC is okay. He's gotta keep that baby in diapers!

"The Curse of Stage Two" continues...

People who are so hung up on TDFF can start their own youtube channel 😂

Wow caught it on upload ^^

So far I'm not too excited about the vuelta. To top it off people don't respect cyclist and they were about to make a huge fuss

I'm Chris Horner and 'you're not' . . . ah ha ha ha.

Just curious, did you go around saying Joe-han Brew-why-kneeeeel?

Visma LOSE-a-bike AGAIN!🥺 Can't see Sepp or Wout winning this year~😏

Why is it assumed and why does Visma choose to do the work? I don't get it, why not sit in and wait it out?

Bonefication

What about the coverage of tdff stage 8 final? It will be much more interesting then second stage of Vuelta B team race! cmon, don't let your male ego get in the way of race reporting

what sep kuss did with roglic and vingegard is going to happen to him by wout.

Wout gc

Rumor has it, Sepp Kuss is still unboxing his Vuelta Gift from 2023!

I wasn't expecting a mundane stage of the Vuelta to be the most comment worthy cycling event going on yesterday.

He wouldn’t be winning anyways even if all his team mates are healthy.

Visma Lease a Bike can’t buy a break in 2024. A little karmic payback for 2023’s good fortune?

Chris, Did you notice Sepp going back to the team car to pick up bidons in the middle of the stage? Was his poor performance in the prologue enough to remove him from protected co-leader role already?

Tf is a bonification lmao

Insane to think this is Visma's first Grand Tour leader's jersey of the year & it's not even on a GC guy.

No worries, i never believed in Kuss defending his vuelta win anyways. He ain't ever getting 'free time' again like he did last year.

Kuss never had a chance of defending the title he was given last year

Lol 😂 Sepp Kuss...ha ha ha. Jumbo went from winning 3 GT last year to zero? this year.

Bad tactics. Jumbo should give up red to primoz and then Sepp should just mark him to 2nd or 3rd overall. Otherwise he won’t get podium at all

There is no defence. Kuss collapsed like a cheap pack of cards as soon as it went uphill

FYI - the audio is low. Might want to check it for future videos.

Something tells me Sepp coasted a LOT during Off Season Training...😁

How do you not talk about TDFF?! Silence says everything about you.

Sepp Kuss red jersey defense😂. He wont even be in the Top 5 at the end. Maybe even not in the Top 10

I Shout without Doubt it's all About the Clout of Wout.