Tour de France.Alaphilippe walked on the moon reserved for subscribers

1re étape. Brest - Landerneau

We will have to make room in the cabinet of the Petit Nino, a little angel already dressed for the summer.After having received from the president of the federation an attire of the French cycling team at its size, the son of Julian Alaphilippe and his partner Marion Rousse, barely a fortnight, will be able to add a yellow jersey to the Layette.

A large format jersey that his world champion of dad went to seek alone at the top of the pit-loups, resistant to the pack of the peloton cadors, in the end of a stage punctuated by two large collective falls and completed byA recital by the leader of the Deceuninck-Quick-Step.A boss led to a large plateau by his teammates to the foot of a final more spectacular difficulty than the promises she had engendered.

A demonstration of strength

" It's a crazy thing.It was already special to leave a few days after the birth of my little one, but it is an incredible feeling of swapping the world champion jersey for the yellow jersey, "barely produced the winner of the day, endorsing for the nineteentheighth time of his career the tunic of the leader of the Tour de France.Throughout a Finistère stage where the loaded sky has been able to retain its tears, Julian Alaphilippe will ultimately have only known a brief fear, when he was involved, without damage, in the second fall of the day, at a dozenkilometers of arrival.A hazard perfectly managed by his teammates, who took over the race handle with authority by entering Landerneau.

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"We returned by staying calm and we had to conclude the work in the last ascent.We had decided to attack from the foot to eliminate sprinters ".A long Kasper Asgreen relay to launch the train, an acceleration of Dries Devenyns to ensure a final selection and the city of the Moon saw a star flying alone at a little more than two kilometers from the finish, before resistingTo the Pogacar, Roglic and others, unable to follow the wheel and the rhythm of French."I left, I wanted to gauge my opponents a little, when I saw that there was a small gap, I said to myself:" Here, everyone is block, continues ... ""

The start of a new epic?

Race won on the slopes which have become less severe from the old Saint-Urbain road, Julian Alaphilippe was able to enjoy a few hectometers of an intense happiness before sharing it remotely, inch to the mouth, with his family, fifty meters fromthe arrival.A happiness made to last, if the world champion, with an eight-second bonus on the main favorites to which we must add the bonuses, passes with the best the double obstacle of Mûr-de-Bretagne, this Sunday.

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"This is not my favorite arrival," said the general leader automatically.But after its 2019 epic and his fourteen days in yellow, his takeover last year in Nice, stopped clearly by a penalty collected for a can received in prohibited zone on Ardèche roads, difficult to predict when the new flirt betweenJulian Alaphilippe and the tour will stop.Because nothing seems to resist that that paternity and the return of the public on the roads seem to transcend.

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