Rising from the disorder of the Vuelta's final stage as champion is Sepp Kuss. America’s new sporting hero, Spain’s adopted son, and the peloton’s pick, if not necessarily his team’s, the 29-year-old completes Jumbo-Visma’s Grand Tour grand slam. Raised in the high mountains, the son of a cross-country skiing legend, Kuss is a natural, a born athlete, and a charming, genial, and friendly human being.⁠ ⁠ The sport of cycling isn’t crying out for a hero that transcends its fanbase - it has them in spades with Remco Evenepoel, Tadej Pogačar, Wout van Aert, and Mathieu van der Poel - but being led by a people’s champion, the sort of archetypal role model that parents would dream of for their children, is a windfall for cycling, a win on the marketing lottery, and, above all, a feel-good story to keep smiles on faces in the interlude between this and the next cycling season.⁠ ⁠ Coming good on a viral hashtag (#GCKuss) is 2023’s answer to a modern-day American dream, but it’s mostly the fact...