Soudal Quick-Step boss Patrick Lefevere once again offered himself an outing on his favorite target, Julian Alaphilippe. “I’m weighing my words – after all, the UCI ethics committee reads – but it’s well below average,” he said.
‘No longer conclude contracts in euphoria, which perhaps happened too often with the runners mentioned,’ he added. In an interview with the Belgian magazine HUMO, he blamed his French rider for a lifestyle with “too many parties and too much alcohol”