Yahoo Sports· 2h ago· 1 min read
Tour de France organisers have been praised for placing netting on the sheer verge of a mountain descent which caught race leader Sepp Kuss and “might have saved his life”.
Kuss was descending during the final throes of stage 20 , the queen stage of the 2026 Tour de France, towards the finish on Alpe d’Huez when lost control at speed on a right-hand bend.
The American Visma-Lease a Bike rider crashed into a low wall on the side of the road and tipped over the edge in a terrifying incident, but was stopped from falling down the mountainside by netting strategically placed by racing organiser ASO.
“I don’t think we can exaggerate this,” said TNT Sport pundit Matt Stephens after the stage. “This could have been a life or death moment. The other side of that [netting] is a precipitous drop.
“The organisers have played a blinder. They knew that if anybody got it wrong, that’s where…
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