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Florian Lipowitz is the new German GC hope discussion thread

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How did you find out who’s Florian’s coach then?
His coach is Jhon Wakefield (pelotrain in social media), previously he was at UAE until the end of 2022 I believe.

You can normally know this info paying attention to the social media of the riders or the trainers or searching for news and interviews, for example this trainer is quite active in social media and sometimes he congratulates his riders after a good perfomance.
 
His coach is Jhon Wakefield (pelotrain in social media), previously he was at UAE until the end of 2022 I believe.

You can normally know this info paying attention to the social media of the riders or the trainers or searching for news and interviews, for example this trainer is quite active in social media and sometimes he congratulates his riders after a good perfomance.
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Very solid performance for his first GT (first GT he was able to finish). No real bad days during 3 weeks and a solid TT today. Big question will be, how much will he be able to improve, where is his ceiling? For me he already appears more promising than Buchmann ever did tbh.
He was weak basically the entire first week getting dropped into Cordoba, losing five minutes to O‘Connor in the break, not performing in the first MTF. He‘s limited in terms of explosivity and I would also doubt he has the VO2max to win a GT. He can be a very good rider but I doubt he will be a primary GC rider at a team like Red Bull.
 
He was weak basically the entire first week getting dropped into Cordoba, losing five minutes to O‘Connor in the break, not performing in the first MTF. He‘s limited in terms of explosivity and I would also doubt he has the VO2max to win a GT. He can be a very good rider but I doubt he will be a primary GC rider at a team like Red Bull.
I don't think it's possible at the moment to estimate what he will be able to achieve in the future. He has taken a big step this year. He has shown how strong he is on the mountain in many stage races. He is also said to be a good downhill rider and his time trials are also solid. These are good prerequisites for riding towards the classification in future stage races. What's more, riding for three weeks in a row for the first time (the Vuelta wasn't actually planned for him) and finishing in the top 10 is super strong. Of course he can still improve. He still has to learn tactically.
Will he ever be able to ride to victory in a GT? Hard. But that's not important at the moment. He could definitely become a very important cyclist for Germany - and also for his team RBH.
 
He was weak basically the entire first week getting dropped into Cordoba, losing five minutes to O‘Connor in the break, not performing in the first MTF. He‘s limited in terms of explosivity and I would also doubt he has the VO2max to win a GT. He can be a very good rider but I doubt he will be a primary GC rider at a team like Red Bull.

There were two different races. The heat of the first nine days in which there were some strange results, and the final 12 stages which had a more regular pattern. I would like to see him in another GT to get a better picture of his overall capabilities.
 
He was weak basically the entire first week getting dropped into Cordoba, losing five minutes to O‘Connor in the break, not performing in the first MTF. He‘s limited in terms of explosivity and I would also doubt he has the VO2max to win a GT. He can be a very good rider but I doubt he will be a primary GC rider at a team like Red Bull.
1st ever GT and he did the work of a Super Dom for Primoz many many days.
Never rode for himself
TT is solid
O'Connor lost 6min after a lucky break away. In general Lipowitz would of out GC'd Ben
 
He did have the advantage of being the only guy bar Skjelmose not to have had any races where he lasted more than a week, but 7th while on domestique duty is still a very good maiden GT finish. Not going to be a world beater but I could definitely see him winning one of the big one-week races or podiuming a Giro or Vuelta in the future.

Yes that's probably his ceiling but on the other hand it's pretty much impossible to predict how much more he can improve.

He could really explode and finish on the TDF podium next year or also just take a minor step forward and top out on a just a little bit better level than he is on already today.

What will probably hold him back is that he isn't very good at shorter efforts. I could imagine him becoming excellent at TTs tho.
 
Denk said in an interview that Lipowitz still has a massive upper body from his biathlon past and he was by far the heavist rider in the Top 10 of GC. They still see a lot of improvement possible for Lipowitz, but they will take it step by step.
 
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Given the strength demonstrated in Romandie, can we truly expect this rider to perform at that level consistently against tougher competition? Or are we merely projecting our hopes based on one impressive stage, overlooking the nuances of different race dynamics?",
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Given the strength demonstrated in Romandie, can we truly expect this rider to perform at that level consistently against tougher competition? Or are we merely projecting our hopes based on one impressive stage, overlooking the nuances of different race dynamics?",
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Well he aready got the best German GT placement since Buchmann in 2019. And he did so as a domestique for Roglic and according to Denk still with a lot of potential to loose weight in the upper body. So he's shown he's consitent enough for a GT Top 10, in the first GT he finished. Plus he's a late starter in the sport. How good he can be in the end we'll have to see, but what he already has looks pretty promising for a good career.
 
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Good showing today, just got caught in the last km, otherwise he would've been 2nd

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