Julian Alaphilippe gave his 2020 season program – JEFF PACHOUD / AFP
Ask for the program. Julian Alaphilippe, 5th in the last Tour de France, will of course start the Grande Boucle in the middle of this reshaped season, but not to play the general classification. In any case, this was assured by his cousin and trainer Franck, to the Team. “If he had aimed at the general classification of the Tour, it would have been better to add a stage race to prepare it. This is not the case, so Julian preferred to run these Italian classics that he likes. “
In the facts, his program will therefore take him for the resumption at the majestic Strade Bianchi on August 1, before he defended his title in Milan – San Remo the following week for the first monument of the year. Then the mini-Dauphiné organized just upstream from the Tour, the French championships in Morbihan and finally the Grande Boucle, where it will no doubt target several stages, temporary yellow jerseys and the polka dot jersey. Unless he has a surprise in store for us: last year either, Alaphilippe was not supposed to aim for the general classification, and yet he was in yellow three days from the Champs-Elysées …
I’m burning to resume the season to see how I feel and what I can achieve. Here is my program for the month of August!
I’m really eager to restart the season to see how I feel and what I can do. Here’s my program for August! https://t.co/JYwUwKt9EB pic.twitter.com/SGlYROdhq9– Julian Alaphilippe Official (@ alafpolak1) July 14, 2020
Another very high season, the very steep Worlds in Switzerland, a week after the Tour, in late September. Accompanied by the French armada in the mountains, with Bardet and Pinot in particular, the Voeckler team has plenty to play for. The season should end for Alaph ‘at the Tour of Flanders on October 18, a race he will discover. But on which it has all the qualities to shine. “I am burning to (re) start the season to see how I feel and what I can achieve,” tweeted the 28-year-old Frenchman, currently interning in the Italian Dolomites, in Val di Fassa, with his team.
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