Chocolate Sepp Kuss greets Volta a Catalunya on long-awaited return to cycling-mad Berga

Sepp Kuss among the peloton on stage 3 of the 2024 Volta a Catalunya to Port Ainé
Sepp Kuss among the peloton on stage 3 of the 2024 Volta a Catalunya to Port Ainé (Image credit: Getty Images)

With multiple cycling clubs, an ongoing exhibition for historic Spanish team Kelme and a long overdue start to the Volta a Catalunya on Saturday's ultra-tough mountain stage, to describe the Pyrenean town of Berga as cycling-mad would be no exaggeration.

But it's not just local riders who matter here. In Berga, they've even got a Sepp Kuss fan club. And a metre-high chocolate Sepp Kuss as part of a cake, too.

Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.