Julian Alaphilippe traumatized: these terrible words about his accident which shed light on the silence of Marion Rousse

French cyclist Julian Alaphilippe experienced a terrible disappointment Monday, June 27, 2022. On this day, his formation, Quick Step-Deceuninck, officially announced that he would not be part of the team that will start the Tour de France 2022. As a reminder, the next edition of La Grande Boucle will begin on Friday July 1, 2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark. A decision motivated by the fact that Julian Alaphlippe had just made his return to competition during the French championships, organized last weekend, i.e. only 2 months after his terrible fall during Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

This accident had earned him a pneumothorax, a broken shoulder blade and two broken ribs. If he understands his team’s decision, the French rider could not hide his disappointment at being excluded from the Tour de Francein an interview with the newspaper the team Tuesday, June 28, 2022.”JI feel tired, diminished. I don’t know if I could have been competitive over three weeks. Doing the Tour without being at 100% is not a gift“, First of all clarified Julian Alaphilippe, before continuing. “I’m barely digesting it and I need time, but yeah, I get it. It’s hard to take ’cause I worked hard for it“, explained the companion of Marion Rousse.

Julian Alaphilippe: “I’m not the same as before”

“On the Tour, I couldn’t have afforded to stay warm in the peloton. I couldn’t bear to spend my July suffering, just being there because it makes people happy“, also added the French runner, before evoking the consequences of this terrible fall which traumatized him.I’m not the same as before, it’s a certainty (…) I really suffered. I don’t wish that on anyone. In the hospital, I was truly psychologically devastated. I was not well. I didn’t even want to think about the bike anymore. It was smoking in my head, I was just full of it“, finally concluded Julian Alaphilippe.