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Drama in Tour de France! German hope Florian Lipowitz (25) failed in the individual time trial from Evian-les-Bains to Thonon-les-Bains and was forced to withdraw from the race. When turning right, the swab is carried too far out. He slips and hits the curb with his shoulder. The second terrible performance of the top pilot after the accident of the co-pilot in the overall standings Jonas Vingegaard (29) on Sunday.
Lipowitz performed well in the 26-kilometer Lake Geneva race and gained time in the overall standings from his third-place rivals Isaac del Toro (22/Mexico) and Paul Seixas (19/France). It seemed like he could get very close to these two talents. Then the crash and the end. He can no longer stand up on his own, he is tied to a stretcher and taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Things look worse than Wingegaard did two days ago.
Florian Lipowitz apparently slipped on a road marking and slid across the road onto a footpath.
Lipovitz’s Red Bull captain Remco Evenepoel (26) wins the stage. He is significantly ahead of the competition and at the finish line is ahead of Tadej Pogačar (27), who continues to drive safely in yellow, by 28 seconds. This is the first victory for a Belgian on the Belgian national day in 41 years. In 1985, Rudi Matthijs (67) won the final stage in Paris.
“This is a bittersweet victory. I heard that Florian fell. I’m really sorry. I hope he gets better soon,” Evenepoel said. In the overall standings he is 4:32 minutes behind Pogačar. Much more important from his point of view: Seixas’ fourth-place lead is 2:39 minutes ahead of three challenging Alpine stages on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Red Bull’s goal is to put the driver on the podium in Paris on Sunday.
Pogacar was injured. “I hope Lipo is okay. There were organization cars in front of me and I couldn’t see the turn the way I wanted. I almost fell there too.”
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