● Alaphilippe wants to remain a free electron
The rainbow has slipped into the range of clothing bearing his name.
Yellow jersey (two days), crowned world champion on the Imola circuit, Julian Alaphilippe experienced the end of the 2020 season between laughs (success on the Brabant Flèche) and tears (thrown to the ground during the Tour of Flanders after hitting a motorcycle).
The aftereffects of his fall (two fractures of his right hand) still accompany the Frenchman at the start of the year:
“It's getting better, I'm continuing to work, but I still can't sprint.
I hope it will be good for the cobblestones… ”
I won't be racing the Tour de France for the general classification, but you never know… The goal is to be ready for the first part of the season with the classics
Julian Alaphilippe
Because, in 2021, his program will be a copy and paste to stick to his temperament, the fever of victory, not the corset of the general classification:
"I will not ride the Tour de France for the general classification, but you never know ... The goal is to be ready for the first part of the season with the classics, the second will concern the Tour and the Olympics, the Worlds, and the rest will be for the third part. "
Courted, the leader of
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