The figure of Julian Alaphilippe has become a decorative object
The season has already started in Australia, the cabals are working, we all turn everything around, but no one talks about Julian Alaphilippe beyond his dancing and that he went to see a Valencia game, in December I think.
You just have to watch Cavendish’s documentary a little to see how little uncle Patrick likes to pay well.
He boasted, during the 2022 Tour, that Mark Cavendish was giving him a great result in exchange for a ridiculous salary.
The topic of money, salaries and things like that has been a recurring theme for Patrick Lefevere.
Not in vain has he already said this several times about Julian Alapilippe, a cyclist without whom we would not be able to understand the current structure of Soudal, a team that, be careful, has lost authentic emblems such as Senechal, Cavagna, De Clerq and Jakobsenthere is nothing.
Julian Alaphilippe is still part of the blue team, who we do not know with any colors other than those with Quick Step somewhere on the kit.
Two very bad years for the Frenchman, I don’t know if they are enough to make us question whether he will ever be who he was again.
Because memory is fragile, and when we remember that Peter Sagan was a bit of the master in the ways of doing things of the current generation, We omit that Julian Alaphilippe also contributed to entertaining us in style many afternoons.
Remember that Amstel that Van der Poel won from behind, Julian went crazy, in a sweet state, escaped on several occasions and attacking more than thirty from the finish line to die on the shore due to his marking with Jakob Fuglsang.
If other times, Soudal had many handles, this time I think the team needs an improved version of the two-time world champion.
The group has lost talent and now we will perhaps be more attentive to Alaphilippe, whose natural objectives (Strade, San Remo, perhaps Flanders, Liege, stages in the Tour and all that) have been taken over by the new names.
And it is almost since the World Cup in Flanders, more than two years ago, we have not seen his best versionthe profile of a “cojonera fly” who is not intimidated by the current bosses and treats them face to face in any terrain, right under their noses, whether in Tirreno, in the first stage of the Tour or the World Championship itself.
Two world championships, plus the other things he has won, are very good, but I don’t want to give up seeing Lou Lou chilli, one of the smartest cyclists in the peloton, whose credit ends when he is “only” going to turn 32 this year.
2024-03-20 12:52:33
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