In the French L’Equipe, Julian Alaphilippe has come back to his fall in the Tour of Flanders. “We drove very fast. I just really hadn’t heard the bike, ”says the Deceuninck-Quick-Step rider. “But I’ll definitely be back.”
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Julian Alaphilippe was irritated by some comments after his fall in the Tour of Flanders. “I heard people say I wasn’t focused enough because I was speaking on the radio, that I was looking too much forward or back, that I was drinking … But that wouldn’t have changed anything.”
The Frenchman doesn’t want to blame anyone for his fall. “It is not the fault of Mathieu van der Poel because he does not warn, it is also not the fault of the motorcyclist because he does not have to drive there. I just hadn’t heard the sound of the engine, we were driving very fast ”, he says.
Message from Van Aert and Van der Poel
“I heard that the motorcyclist in question felt bad, but that is really unnecessary. I hope this interview convinces him of that. Such things happen in the race. I don’t have any sense of resentment towards anyone. Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel both sent me a message. That’s nice of them. Or do I still try hard to attack without my fall? Of course!”
Alpahilippe does not only want to remember the Tour through a fall. “I definitely want to return,” he says. “Although it is not easy to be top in the Tour of Flanders and in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, so I have to talk about that with the staff. But I really want to return to the Tour again, with the same form and without a fall. ”
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