The doubt is removed.
This Tuesday morning, Thomas Voeckler, the coach of the France team, announced his selection for the world championships which will take place at the end of the month in Wollongong, in the south of Sidney.
The reigning double world champion Julian Alaphilippe, pursued by bad luck this season, is part of the trip to the Antipodes.
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He will be accompanied for the road race, on September 25, by eight other runners: Romain Bardet, Christophe Laporte, Valentin Madouas, Quentin Pacher, Florian Sénéchal, Pavel Sivakov, Rémi Cavagna and Bruno Armirail.
The latter two will also compete in the time trial which will take place next Sunday.
Note the absences of David Gaudu (4th in the Tour de France), sprinter Arnaud DĂ©mare, Guillaume Martin, BenoĂźt Cosnefroy and even Thibaut Pinot.
The reigning double world champion has experienced many setbacks since the start of the season.
He experienced several falls, during the Strade Bianche, the FlÚche Brabançonne and especially LiÚge-Bastogne-LiÚge, which had earned him multiple injuries (pneumothorax, three ribs and a fractured shoulder blade) and an absence on the Grande Boucle.
On Wednesday August 31, Alaphilippe fell again, this time during the 11th stage of the Vuelta, resulting in a dislocated right shoulder.
His Quick Step team manager, Patrick Lefevere, then estimated in the Belgian press that his rider would be "probably too short" for the Australian meeting at the end of the month, before giving more optimistic elements last week. , again to a Belgian newspaper.
It now remains to be seen what the real chances will be for the native of Cher.
As for the women's selection, Aude Biannic, Audrey Cordon-Ragot, Coralie Demay, Juliette Labous, Marie Le Net, Evita Muzic and Gladys Verhulst have been selected for the online event which will take place on September 24.