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Cycling: "It's bad luck on all sides", the black year of Julian Alaphilippe

2022-09-01T07:04:00.908Z


The French rider once again fell during the Vuelta, where he was trying to revive. His season could end on this image


In sport as elsewhere, there are years when everything is going well… And years when nothing is going well.

2022 is part of the second category for Julian Alaphilippe.

The French rider fell on the roads of the Tour of Spain, a third fall since the start of the season.

While running the Vuelta to get going again, the double world champion was forced to give up, victim of a dislocated right shoulder.

He could forfeit the World Championships in September in Australia.

Its unavailability was not indicated in the press release from the Quick-Step team, new examinations are planned in the coming days.

Less than a month from the Worlds, "it's a stupid fall" commented his teammate Remco Evenepoel.

A possible end to the season, like his year.

“These are the vagaries of high-level cycling, regrets Luc Leblanc, road world champion in 1994. It's a bad time to live.

These falls are mostly due to bad luck.

Sick at the start of the year, Julian Alaphilippe then chained the falls, starting with a sun on the Strade Brianche.

He had missed the Tour de France after a huge collective fall during Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

The latter had caused him several fractures and had forced him to wait long weeks before resuming competition.

Back on his bike in July, Julian Alaphilippe had caught the Covid on the Tour de Wallonie.

“It's bad luck on all sides.

Every time he thinks of coming back, he has a problem, ”analyzes Bernard Hinault.

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The findings are terrible.

"It's a dark season", poses the former glory of French cycling.

But Marc Madiot, former rider and director of the Groupama-FDJ team, is not particularly worried about the double world champion: “It's part of the job.

It has happened to others and it will happen again.

We always recover.

He will want to come back even more.

It will depend on him and his will » « Years ago like that, everything went wrong and we don't know why, » says Le Blaireau, as if to complete it.

If we do not yet know if Julian Alaphilippe can already draw a line under his season, it is clear "that we will have to forget this year", explains Luc Leblanc who has also experienced empty passages during his career.

Moreover, Luc Leblanc would like to remind you that the career of the 30-year-old runner “is not over.

Do not think that he has lost qualities, there is nothing dramatic.

»

Julian Alaphilippe is however awaiting his final fate regarding his potential end of the season, and his participation in the World Championships to defend his rainbow jersey.

Anyway, the runner will be keen to resume the 2023 season in a positive way after a nightmarish year where worries have been linked.

Source: leparis

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