Rick Zabel confirmed Ullrich’s words, said about Lipowitz: “His tour is yet coming. His tour starts when it comes to the mountains. We will still have a lot of fun with Lipo.”
The 14th stage leads the drivers to the famous Col du Tourmalet at this year’s tour. And on the 18th stage, the cycling professionals have to conquer the Col de la Loze – the mountain where Tadej Pogačar two years ago the famous radio message “I’m dead. I was completely” passed on to his team at the end and had to leave Vingegaard the tour victory.
The mountains decide who sorted out where in the overall classification. No matter how Lipowitz will beat, for Rick Zabel it is certain for Rick Zabel: “It will be inevitable that there will be a wax release. I do not know whether right on the tour, but definitely in the long term. And I think that such a Roglič in his back of his head knows a bit.”