Florian Lipowitz

D- so, so you're going in the sort of like more classics rider kind of direction.

Is Montreal hard enough? Is that climb hard enough that we start looking at all of the other sort of top riders on that list that have, like, done something at a Grand Tour, for example? A- and I'm not necessarily, necessary, necessarily saying for a victory, but to put them in the sort of the same category as Paul Seixas, which is like they're unlikely to, to be dropped, right? Like, if I look down this list, is, i- are your Felix Gall's an interesting name? Is Florian Lipowitz an interesting name? Is Giulio Ciccone an interesting name for Sunday?

Well, I think what, what you said about Seixas there is interesting, because Seixas may not win, but he could help choose the winner, because-

Oh, absolutely

I didn't really, uh...

Trek obviously, they're going much more into the German, uh, German-speaking market, and Goll is the, outside of Lipowitz, the best German-speaking, uh, GC contender, and he's just podiumed two Grand Tours, and he's 28.

No reason to suggest-

Yeah

but I agree

... you have to beat two of Sixhas, Evenepoel, del Toro, Vingegaard.

And then there's still a Lipowitz sense of thought around, you know?

Yeah.

He doesn't seem to thrive in that situation, or he certainly hasn't at Red Bull.

And it may just be coincidence rather than correlation, but generally, when they've sent him to races and there's been a Lipowitz there, or, you know, maybe even on a c- well, he hasn't done any races with Remco, but others as well, whether it's a Vlasov or a Hindley, he, he hasn't, he hasn't performed quite as well.

Mm.

So it feels like Primoz Roglic might still be more suited to being the big fish in a small pond, rather than the medium-sized fish-

Yeah, probably, I mean, it's a tough question because probably, uh, Primoz Roglic, of course, with that twenty twenty-four Vuelta a España win, secure a good, uh, good note on his, uh, Red Bull Bora-Hansgrohe years.

But at the same time, this ending, Daniel, I have the feeling that this ending, and especially the jump over the team of not just Remco Evenepoel but Pri- Florian Lipowitz, has, I mean, led this bittersweet flavor in, on, on, on, on his trajectory here at the team.

So, especially this year, after just having a top 10 on the GC of Tirreno-Adriatico, not in Itzulia, not in the Romandie, not-

One victory in the Slovenian National Time Trial Championship.

They knew that he probably only had, in the three-year contract, he probably had one and a half good shots at it, uh, but it hasn't worked out on that front.

Mm.

And especially with the Tour de France that both Florian Lipowitz and Remco Evenepoel has had during the last two years.

Mm.