{"id":810556,"date":"2026-07-19T17:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810556\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T17:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:09:15","slug":"vingegaard-and-lipowitz-have-different-views-of-stage-14-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810556\/","title":{"rendered":"Vingegaard and Lipowitz have different views of stage 14 climb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> and Florian Lipowitz<\/a> were in the same boat during Stage 14 of the Tour de France<\/a>. The Dane from Visma | Lease a Bike<\/a> and the German from Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe would have loved to challenge Tadej Pogacar, but he simply proved too strong for everyone<\/a>. However, the two riders\u2019 analyses after the race were 180 degrees apart.Vingegaard was, of course, the man of the day after Pogacar, because he took the initiative with Visma | Lease a Bike on the fourteenth stage and decided to pick up the pace on the day\u2019s final climb. Even after Vingegaard had dropped his domestiques, he continued to lead the pack. However, the top general classification contenders<\/a>, including Lipowitz, were able to stay on his wheel.<\/p>\n

After the summit, it was really every man for himself, and although Vingegaard had a half-minute lead over Lipowitz at the top, his teammate Remco Evenepoel and Juan Ayuso (Lidl-Trek) Evenepoel finished just 4 seconds behind the Dane, with Lipowitz and Ayuso 6 seconds back. As a result, the three remain hot on the heels of Vingegaard in the general classification, who finished only fourth and had nothing left for the sprint.<\/p>\n

Still, Vingegaard\u2019s assessment after the race was fairly positive. While Visma | Lease a Bike team director Marc Reef<\/a> admitted that the team had no answer for Pogacar, Vingegaard focused on himself. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a bad stage. I did get some answers for myself\u2014my legs are where I wanted them to be. I\u2019m happy, and I\u2019m also pleased with how the team rode today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lipowitz would have liked to have done better at the Tour de FranceLipowitz kept pace with Vingegaard on the final climb and thus crossed the finish line in almost the same time. The young German, however, wasn\u2019t too happy with how his day went. \u201cIt was an incredibly tough day right from the start. I want to thank all the German fans for coming out\u2014I had goosebumps on the bike,\u201d he began, still sounding positive in a brief comment by the team bus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I was lacking a bit of leg strength today and would have liked to do better,” he continued self-critically. So Lipowitz didn\u2019t have the leg strength he\u2019d hoped for, even though that still earned him a finishing time that was virtually identical to Vingegaard\u2019s\u2014so he was satisfied after all. \u201cWe can be happy with the team\u2019s performance, and in the end, we didn\u2019t lose much time. We\u2019ll keep fighting,\u201d said Lipowitz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard and Florian Lipowitz were in the same boat during Stage 14 of the Tour de France.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,173159,6495,39733,85,346968,23372],"class_list":["post-810556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-florian-lipowitz","tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-red-bull-bora-hansgrohe","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france-2026","tag-visma-lease-a-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810556","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=810556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}