{"id":673313,"date":"2026-05-15T20:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/673313\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T20:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:41:08","slug":"felix-gall-not-concerned-with-how-to-beat-jonas-vingegaard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/673313\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Gall not concerned with how to beat Jonas Vingegaard"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was not Giulio Pellizzari (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) but Felix Gall<\/a> (Decathlon CMA CGM) who came closest to stage winner Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> on Blockhaus on Friday. The Austrian climbed at his own pace and arrived just 13 seconds behind the Dane at the summit.Gall was not on Vingegaard’s wheel when the Visma | Lease a Bike<\/a> rider launched his attack with 5.5 kilometres to go. Pellizzari did follow \u2014 but cracked one kilometre later. That allowed the Austrian to move past the Italian with relative ease.”I was a bit annoyed that I couldn’t follow Vingegaard \u2014 but then in the end it was the right choice,” Gall told Cycling on TNT Sports<\/a>. “I’m happy that I climbed at my own pace.”<\/p>\n

“Visma | Lease a Bike set a super-high tempo from the very start of the climb \u2014 and with the crosswind, that wasn’t exactly easy. But Gregor” \u2014 M\u00fchlberger \u2014 “gave me fantastic protection,” Gall said with genuine praise for his teammate. “That made a real difference. But the whole team was already doing brilliantly before that.”<\/p>\n

Read on below the video!<\/p>\n

Gall not thinking about Vingegaard”All in all, we were lucky with the weather. I have ridden Blockhaus before, in my first Giro, and back then I could barely get up it. So I’m very happy to have finished second today,” said Gall \u2014 who also received warm words from Vingegaard himself, who identified the Austrian as a rider to watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gall takes it in his stride. “Jonas is the best Grand Tour rider there is \u2014 along with Tadej Pogacar.”<\/p>\n

“He’s also a far better time trialist, so honestly, I’m not thinking about how I can beat him. I’m just happy with how things are going.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was not Giulio Pellizzari (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) but Felix Gall (Decathlon CMA CGM) who came closest to stage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,221838,307392,163619,6495,85,23372],"class_list":["post-673313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-decathlon-cma-cgm","tag-felix-gall","tag-giro-ditalia","tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-sports","tag-visma-lease-a-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673313","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=673313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}