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Tour de France – Tour discovery: Jens Voigt predicts a great future for Austrian Felix Gall

Tour de France – Tour discovery: Jens Voigt predicts a great future for Austrian Felix Gall

Already on stage put a real exclamation mark. On Wednesday he triumphed in Courchevel as a soloist in his first Tour de France. “He’s shown a lot of potential in the next few years,” he seemed Eurosport expert Voigt is optimistic about the future after the stage in the “Velo Club”.

The guy from the AG2R Citroën team, who won part of the Tour de Suisse, is by no means at his limit, said Voigt: “He could also try to attack the podium.”

There he did not finish in the general classification in the 2023 Tour, but in the final mountain classification, the 25-year-old reached second place behind Giulio Ciccone, who arrives in Paris on Sunday wearing the polka-dot jersey.

“Solo Brilliant”: Gall wins on the highest point of the tour

Gal focuses on classification

Gall avoided attacking the Italian in the penultimate section on Saturday. Also in order not to jeopardize his ranking position. “He had to risk everything,” he explained. Eurosport expert Bernie Eisel in “Velo Club”. Instead, a top ten score took priority on the Tour of Austria debut.

In any case, this wouldn’t be Gal’s last chance to slip on one of the coveted Tour de France jerseys. Maybe even yellow.

The name Felix Gall should have been known to at least most fans in France for the past three weeks.

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