{"id":9409,"date":"2025-07-20T01:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T01:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9409\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T01:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T01:50:08","slug":"florian-lipowitz-everyone-knows-the-third-week-is-the-hardest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9409\/","title":{"rendered":"Florian Lipowitz: Everyone knows the third week is the hardest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/i9KYB96JdZbqvKSCdtxhUQ.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/i9KYB96JdZbqvKSCdtxhUQ.jpg\"  data- alt=\"\" title=\"Florian Lipowitz\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull\u2013Bora\u2013Hansgrohe) delivered another solid performance on stage 14 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cycling.today\/2025-tour-de-france-live-stream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tour de France<\/a>, cementing his third place on the general classification after <a href=\"https:\/\/cycling.today\/evenepoel-abandons-tour-de-france-ill-come-back-stronger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Evenepoel\u2019s abandon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cComing into the Tour, I never thought about the podium or fighting for it. I knew I was in good shape and now I\u2019m third and I have the white jersey, I can only be happy,\u201d Lipowitz said after <a href=\"https:\/\/cycling.today\/arensman-conquers-superbagneres-to-win-stage-14-of-the-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">stage 14<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also acknowledged the challenging third week ahead, noting, \u201cTwo weeks are almost done but everyone knows the third week is the hardest. The stages look very tough with a lot of climbing. We have to see how the legs are. I hope they stay the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding his role alongside Primoz Roglic, he said, \u201cWe are a team, and we talk together. So far, I\u2019ve shown that I\u2019m in good shape, but Primoz is the leader. He\u2019s the one who will tell me what to do and what the plan is for the next few days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull\u2013Bora\u2013Hansgrohe) delivered another solid performance on stage 14 of the Tour de France, cementing his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-9409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409","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=9409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}