Cycling
Lipowitz-Hilfe for free: Jury punishes teammate van Poppel
Florian Lipowitz starts with pain and does important helper services for the Dutch champion. But the victory of the sprinter is revoked by the jury. A Norwegian cheers.
All effort was in vain. Florian Lipowitz prepared the victory of his teammate Danny van Poppel in pain, but the racing jury did not know a sorry after a borderline sprint. The Dutch champion was revoked on the third stage. Instead, Norwegian Sören Waerenskjold was able to cheer from Arnsberg to Kassel after 175.7 kilometers, the Prologue winner of Essen is also faced with the overall victory.
Van Poppel, who had been left behind on the heavy third stage of the Germany Tour with almost 3000 meters of altitude and was brought back to the top group by Lipowitz, had blocked the way to the British Matthew Brennan in the final. Accordingly, the Red Bull professional was downgraded by the jury to the end of the first group.
“I tried to support Danny as much as possible. Unfortunately, the victory was revoked. I think we did our best and can still be satisfied,” said Lipowitz of the ARD and added to his unusual role: “I would like to do that. I got so much of them on the tour.”
Hand, shoulder and collarbone
The Tour-de France third after a crash went to the stage with pain on Friday. “The hand was not quite as well, but the legs went through,” reported Lipowitz, who had strayed from the route on the second stage after a fall by the German champion Georg Zimmermann and crashed into a power box. He carried bruises on his hand, the shoulder and the collarbone.
It was discussed in the team for a long time whether he should continue the race. Finally, health proceeds. Lipowitz did not want to disappoint his fans on the classic-like stage and struggled through.
Waerenskjold is expanding a tour
Due to Van Poppel’s downgrading, Waerenskjold was the big winner on Saturday. In the overall ranking, the Norwegian is now ten seconds ahead of Jhonatan Narvaez from Ecuador and is about to win the five -day tour.
The German drivers again played no role in the final. Marius Mayerhofer landed tenth. The Cologne Nils Politt 2021 caused the last success when he won the third stage and also the overall ranking. However, the profile was too heavy for the sprinter. The two-time tour stage winner Jonathan Milan from Italy and Phil Bauhaus were left behind at an early stage.
Waerenskjold should hardly have to be taken over the overall victory. A mass sprint can be expected on the 163.7 km long stage.
dpa
Source: Stern
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