{"id":672021,"date":"2026-05-15T21:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/672021\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:36:09","slug":"felix-gall-not-concerned-with-how-to-beat-jonas-vingegaard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/672021\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Gall not concerned with how to beat Jonas Vingegaard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was not Giulio Pellizzari (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/stan-dewulf\" title=\"Felix Gall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Felix Gall<\/a> (Decathlon CMA CGM) who came closest to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/blockhaus-wasnt-a-piece-of-cake-for-vingegaard-but-why-did-he-kiss-his-handlebars-at-the-finish\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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&#8217;s wheel when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/visma-lease-a-bike\" title=\"Visma | Lease a Bike\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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.&#8221;I was a bit annoyed that I couldn&#8217;t follow Vingegaard \u2014 but then in the end it was the right choice,&#8221; Gall told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cyclingontnt\/status\/2055318906961645835\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cycling on TNT Sports<\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m happy that I climbed at my own pace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Visma | Lease a Bike set a super-high tempo from the very start of the climb \u2014 and with the crosswind, that wasn&#8217;t exactly easy. But Gregor&#8221; \u2014 M\u00fchlberger \u2014 &#8220;gave me fantastic protection,&#8221; Gall said with genuine praise for his teammate. &#8220;That made a real difference. But the whole team was already doing brilliantly before that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read on below the video!<\/p>\n<p>Gall not thinking about Vingegaard&#8221;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&#8217;m very happy to have finished second today,&#8221; said Gall \u2014 who also received warm words from Vingegaard himself, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/blockhaus-wasnt-a-piece-of-cake-for-vingegaard-but-why-did-he-kiss-his-handlebars-at-the-finish\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">who identified the Austrian as a rider to watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gall takes it in his stride. &#8220;Jonas is the best Grand Tour rider there is \u2014 along with Tadej Pogacar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s also a far better time trialist, so honestly, I&#8217;m not thinking about how I can beat him. I&#8217;m just happy with how things are going.&#8221;<\/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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,175351,247415,43199,5900,82,10761],"class_list":["post-672021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","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\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}