{"id":246452,"date":"2025-10-28T13:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246452\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:59:08","slug":"the-giro-ditalia-is-not-on-the-agenda-florian-lipowitz-aims-for-repeat-ride-in-tour-de-france-next-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246452\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Giro d’Italia is not on the agenda’ – Florian Lipowitz aims for repeat ride in Tour de France next July"},"content":{"rendered":"

2025 Tour de France podium finisher Florian Lipowitz<\/a> has yet to decide his full race program for 2026, but the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe racer knows one thing for sure: next year’s Giro d’Italia <\/a>will not be on the agenda.<\/p>\n

A notable third overall and Best Young Rider winner in his first-ever Tour de France participation, Lipowitz ended the race well behind top finishers Tadej Poga\u010dar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Jonas Vingegaard <\/a>(Visma-Lease a Bike) but ahead of many better-established Grand Tour contenders.<\/p>\n

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The 25-year-old made it clear in a recent media encounter that he is hoping to return to the Tour de France in 2026<\/a>, although a full race program will not be unveiled before December at the earliest.<\/p>\n

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Avoiding the Giro is not, therefore, surprising, with his only result in the Italian Grand Tour set to remain a brief spell in the Best Young Rider’s jersey in the first two weeks of the 2024 race, followed by an abandon because of illness.<\/p>\n

He did, however, reveal to the media that he has used the 2025 off-season to have an operation on his nasal septum, in an attempt to prevent previous repeat infections.<\/p>\n

Regarding 2026, “The Giro is not on the agenda,” Lipowitz told the media in comments reported by Cyclingmagazine.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The Tour de France is the biggest race. Everyone probably wants to take part.”<\/p>\n

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“I would like to ride, but of course, a lot can happen during preparation. We’ll have to see how the races go, but fundamentally, the Tour is of course an option.”<\/p>\n

Regarding the recently published 2026 Tour de France <\/a>route, Lipowitz said he had not looked at it in detail but recognised that the tough final week, which includes a double assault of Alpe d’Huez, suited his abilities<\/p>\n

I often have a bit of trouble getting into the race. I struggled a bit in the first few days this year, but then things went better.”<\/p>\n

With Remco Evenepoel – the previous rider who finished third in the Tour de France – set to join Lipowitz, Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d <\/a>and Jai Hindley, Alexsander Vlasov and Dani Martinez as part of the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe setup in 2026, Lipowitz said simply that he welcomed the Belgian’s arrival, commenting, “Of course, it’s always nice to have such a successful cyclist on the team.”<\/p>\n

Regarding his surgery on his nose, Lipowitz told the Tourfunk<\/a> podcast that he had “been talking about having it done for a while.” <\/p>\n

It also emerged that after finishing his season in September at the Canada World Cups, he has started his 2026 training earlier than planned, explaining that “I had a six-week break, so my form is pretty bad right now. I’m optimistic that my form will return quickly.”<\/p>\n

“After last year’s successes, expectations are definitely high. I’m trying to put that as much as possible into perspective.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025 Tour de France podium finisher Florian Lipowitz has yet to decide his full race program for 2026,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-246452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246452","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=246452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}