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Pride, fatigue and happiness, Alaphilippe recounts his "rainbow year"

2021-11-17T06:16:03.229Z


The two-time world cycling champion recounts his year wearing the iridescent jersey in “My Rainbow Year”, a book to be published this Wednesday. It also sets the course for the years to come.


A year of firsts for Julian Alaphilippe. Titled cycling world champion for the first time in September 2020, the French rider was fortunate to see the birth of his first child, Nino. But it is his arrival on the Imola autodrome that is the starting point of his first book, to be published this Wednesday. In "

My rainbow year

", a rhythmic and catchy story, the 29-year-old cyclist invites his fans as well as the uninitiated to take his wheel to discover his daily life for a year, with a constant at the start as at the finish: a world champion title.

Scarecrow announced for the road race for the 2020 Worlds, Alaphilippe, weighted down with a huge favorite sign, won solo the "

most beautiful cycling jersey

" according to a scenario that unfolded as on the blackboard.

A dream that has come true, as he writes at the start of the book: “

The world title has always made me dream (…)

I had always clung to this dream.

It seemed to me

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Source: lefigaro

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