(Paris) The double French world champion Julian Alaphilippe will return to competition on Sunday during the French Championship two months after his fall in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, from which he recovered with a hemopneumothorax and multiple fractures (ribs and scapula), its Quick-Step team announced on Tuesday.
The presence of the cyclist at the start of the Tour de France, of which he has worn the yellow jersey for the last three editions, is still pending. The big start of the event, the 1er July in Copenhagen, will only take place five days after his return to competition.
Alaphilippe is, with the outgoing champion Rémi Cavagna and Florian Sénéchal, among the three riders whose Quick-Step training announced the participation in the French Championships in a press release released on Tuesday.
The road race on Sunday in Cholet, promised to sprinters at the end of 240 km of urban circuit, will offer him his first bib since his serious fall in the Doyenne on April 24, 60 kilometers from the finish.
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“The Tour de France option is always open, it is always in my mind”, assured the double world champion at the end of May after joining the rest of his team on an altitude training course in the south of Spain, in Sierra Nevada.
Suitable for light training from mid-May, the French puncher, who celebrated his 30th birthday in early June, had passed a reassuring final exam before flying off to an internship. “The good news was that my lung was fully recovered, which of course I was very happy about. The broken bones were still painful, which is completely normal, as these injuries take longer to recover,” he explained.
His condition on Sunday, for his only race before his possible participation in the Tour de France, will be scrutinized. “Of course, I can’t do the same job as all the guys here yet, because I need time to train and get back into shape and I still have to be careful not to push my injuries too much,” he explained when he arrived for an internship in Spain.
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