{"id":646862,"date":"2026-05-03T12:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646862\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T12:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:04:14","slug":"lipowitz-is-making-pogacar-suffer-in-romandie-and-raising-leadership-questions-for-his-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646862\/","title":{"rendered":"Lipowitz is making Poga\u010dar suffer in Romandie \u2013 and raising leadership questions for his team"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lipowitz<\/p>\n

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‘It was really hard to drop Florian … and he gave me a really hard time on the downhill,’ said Poga\u010dar of Lipowitz, who finished just 14 seconds down on the Romandie Queen Stage.<\/p>\n

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Cor Vos<\/p>\n

Florian Lipowitz is having a very good year. After consistently good performances in Portugal and Spain, the 25-year-old German is finishing his first racing block at the Tour de Romandie where he\u2019s come face to face with Tadej Poga\u010dar for the first time since the 2025 Canadian Classics, and before that, the Tour de France.<\/p>\n

Eight months after finishing third behind Poga\u010dar and Jonas Vingegaard at his first Tour, Lipowitz has proven the only rider able to follow the all-conquering world champion at the Tour de Romandie, and even put him under pressure in the Swiss mountains.<\/p>\n

On stage 4 of the Tour de Romandie, Poga\u010dar \u2013 already leading the race off the back of two stage wins earlier in the week \u2013 attacked the group of favourites a little over three kilometres from the summit of the Jaunpass (8.1 km at 8.3%), with 20 km remaining of the stage. The on-form Lenny Martinez was able to react quickly, but faded when Poga\u010dar accelerated again, just as Lipowitz steadily paced himself up onto the Slovenian\u2019s coattails.<\/p>\n

Lipowitz was then dropped in the last kilometre of the climb, but with the rest of the contenders shedding buckets of time, he had already won a moral victory. He was second best to Poga\u010dar on the climbs, a distinction only otherwise claimed this season by teenage phenom Paul Seixas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Lipowitz latched onto Poga\u010dar and held on for a couple kilometres on the last climb of stage 4 at the Tour de Romandie.<\/p>\n

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\n News & Racing<\/a>
\n Florian Lipowitz<\/a>
\n Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe<\/a>
\n Tour de Romandie<\/a>
\n Tour de France<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News & Racing ‘It was really hard to drop Florian … and he gave me a really hard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-646862","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\/646862","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=646862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}