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Florian Lipowitz shows the 19th stage of the Tour de France after La Plagnethat he quickly realizes. One day after he almost lost the white jersey, he expands his lead again. He probably fulfills his team’s dream of the podium in Paris.
Florian Lipowitz can be seen at the Tour de France these days. He is part of the world’s most important bike race for the first time and has new experiences every day, which must be processed and transformed into routine. Lipowitz succeeds at a rapid pace.
Anyone who watched the 24 -year -old cycling professional in the finish area of the 19th stage in La Plagne could see how confident Lipowitz now this daily Tour d’Honeur completed. How he accepts the congratulations on the podium, then writes his autographs on a set of white jerseys and then slips the microphones of the international TV institutions to report on his day on the street.
Sportschau Tourfunk, 25.07.2025 8:02 p.m.
Lipowitz is not in panic
It has been six days ago that Lipowitz has completed this procedure for the first time – in the fogged ski resort Superbagnères in the Pyrenees. And for the first time, he looked, not surprisingly, almost overwhelmed by the entire brimborium, which surrounds you on the tour as a carrier of one of the rating jerseys. But now: routine.
Lipowitz is apparently a quick learner and not only on and behind the podium, but especially on the bike. On the way to La Plagne this was clearly visible. He took a kind of matriculation examination on the 19 -kilometer final climb. In the meantime, it seemed as if he was still losing the 22 seconds he was still a lead over Oscar Onley, the fourth of the overall ranking.
An attack by Tadej Pogacar in the yellow jersey could initially only follow Jonas Vingegaard and Onley overall. But Lipowitz was not in panic. “I knew when they look again that I would come back”, he said later. That’s how it came and in the end it was onley who could no longer follow the pace and lost time.
The podium in Paris is within reach
1:03 minutes are now between the German and the Scotsman with two outstanding stages, one of them in the low mountain range and the following final chord in Paris, where it is up three times this year Montmarte goes.
Lipowitz in front of Pogacar and Vingegaard at the 19th stage
The podium square in Paris is within reach, but of course both Lipowitz and his team emphasize that you have to continue to focus and remain highly concentrated. Defensive will be the strategy, as on the 19th stage, on which Lipowitz glued like a watchdog on the rear wheel of the Scots all day, and only forced the pace when onley got into trouble.
That is also part of the steep learning curve. Because the offensive driving style the day before, which would have cost him almost third and the white jersey, had of course been an issue at the Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe team. “He paid a high price for this yesterday. And of course that was part of the discussion this morning”, “ the sporting director Enrico Gasparotto reported on the meeting before the stage. “We explained to him what happens to a big tour in the third week. And I think he learned his lesson.”
Wax release in the German team inevitable
It is precisely these learning processes that make Lipowitz one of the drivers who, like Oscar onley, belongs to the future. Because the success of the young German cyclist also gave a wax release at the Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe team. The 36 -year -old Primoz Roglic will no longer lead the team in the future.
Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe had signed the Slovenia for a lot of money last year to finally get a driver on the podium in Paris on the tour. This is probably what his young team -mate Florian Lipowitz is now able to do.
Roglic with a last attempt
Roglic tried on the 93.1 kilometer 19th stage to go on a final success at the Tour de France, where he celebrated three stage victories and lost the yellow jersey to Tadej Pogacar in 2020 on the penultimate day. He had driven away as a soloist, but was set 21.5 kilometers before the finish.
“In the past few days, Primoz has put the priority on struggling to win a stage. said gas parotto in La Plagne. “He wanted to win something to come to Paris and say, I won a stage. And that is understandable.”
Lipowitz longs for Sunday
Roglic had also put Lipowitz in danger at least on the 18th stage when he left his young teammate twice without help. But now it looks as if the team will have the desired result. “We said we want to get on the podium and if we can do it with a racing driver who represents the future for us, then of course that’s all the more beautiful”, “ said Rolf Aldag, the sports director of the team.
It is still important to survive for two days for Lipowitz, who is already longing for the end, on the bike after almost three weeks and finally two difficult alpine stages: “Yesterday I was totally at the limit, too. I am honestly happy when it’s Sunday evening.”