Guest this Wednesday during the show “Extra Time Course” on the VRT, Remco Evenepoel was asked about the rest of his season and if Julian Alaphilippe’s injury was going to have an impact on his. This will not be the case.
After his serious fall during Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Julian Alaphilippe is not about to return to the roads, its participation in the next Tour de France is called into question. So his team Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl will have to anticipate a possible package from the French puncher.
If he were to be absent, he will in any case not be replaced by Remco Evenepoel as confirmed by the main interested party on the set of the VRT: “We haven’t even thought about it yet. And that won’t happen. The schedule is set. Last year we made the mistake of changing the program too much.”
The recent winner of Liège-Bastogne-Liège will therefore remain on his initial program with the Tour of Norway, the Belgian championships, San Sebastian and, of course, the Vuelta as his end-of-season objective.