That's not indecision, it's a bet on depth: Ben Tulett and debutant Jørgen Nordhagen ran as parallel GC options alongside Kuss, while Matthew Brennan and Christophe Laporte hunted sprints and Wout van Aert covered time trials and mixed terrain. On stage 4, the first mountain test, Visma sent multiple riders up the climb rather than ride for one leader—an approach that only sharpened once Kuss emerged as the team's clear GC threat in fourth, with Tulett and Nordhagen already over eight minutes back. A former champion arriving unsure whether he's targeting red or the mountains classification would be a crisis for most teams. Here it just meant more furniture to work with.