{"id":16674,"date":"2025-07-23T19:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16674\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T19:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:09:10","slug":"you-start-to-dream-jan-ullrich-heaps-praise-on-lipowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16674\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou start to dream\u201d \u2013 Jan Ullrich heaps praise on Lipowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florian Lipowitz<\/a>\u2019s steady rise through the professional
\ncycling ranks has reached a new peak during this year\u2019s Tour de France. With
\nanother strong ride in the mountains yesterday, the young German is no longer
\nbeing viewed as just a talent for the future, he\u2019s arrived. Jan Ullrich<\/a> and
\nEurosport commentator Robert Bengsch both singled him out for his poise and
\nprecision. It wasn\u2019t just the legs that impressed, but the strategic mastery on
\none of the race\u2019s most punishing days by Red Bull \u2013 BORA \u2013 hansgrohe.\u201cWhat he showed again today \u2013 Florian Lipowitz and also
\nPrimoz Roglic<\/a> \u2013 that was a fantastic performance,\u201d said Ullrich, who won the
\nTour in 1997. He pointed to the way Lipowitz managed the steep early section of
\nthe climb, holding back while others pushed too hard. Bengsch emphasized the
\ndifficulty of that decision: \u201cIt\u2019s really steep. The first ten kilometers are
\nsuper, super hard \u2013 you can\u2019t just open up the race there.\u201d Lipowitz\u2019s
\nrestraint, both agreed, was the right call.<\/p>\n

Bengsch sounded genuinely impressed by Lipowitz’s
\nlevel-headed approach. \u201cI don\u2019t know where Florian Lipowitz gets all this
\nexperience, this coolness, this ease,\u201d he said. \u201cHe just rides his boot, his
\nrhythm. He knows exactly how much lactate he can build up without getting into
\nthe red zone. That\u2019s incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

From Bengsch\u2019s perspective, Lipowitz is no longer a prospect
\nin development. \u201cHe\u2019s already a great champion,\u201d he said, adding that
\nperformances like this are as much about mental control as they are about
\nphysical ability.<\/p>\n

Still, some questions feel inevitable. Could Lipowitz make a
\nlate charge in the general classification? Bengsch dismissed the idea of
\ntoppling Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, \u201cthe two aliens,\u201d as he calls them,
\nbut admitted, \u201cOf course you start to dream \u2013 can Lipowitz perhaps still attack
\nVingegaard? But I think we\u2019ll have to say goodbye to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet even without a bid for yellow, there\u2019s no shortage of
\nmotivation. Lipowitz remains in the white jersey as the best young rider and is
\ntracking toward the podium. His teammate at Red Bull \u2013 BORA \u2013 hansgrohe, Primoz
\nRoglic, has bounced back from a rough stretch and could finish just outside the
\ntop three.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Primoz Roglic can maybe get to four or so, that would be
\na bomb result,\u201d Ullrich said, summing up the mood among Roglic and German fans.
\nThis Tour is giving them more than one reason to cheer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florian Lipowitz\u2019s steady rise through the professional cycling ranks has reached a new peak during this year\u2019s Tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-16674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}