No radios, the world championship is the only race in which everything is as it once was.So with about twenty km from the end, Julian Alaphilippe made an ancient gesture: he was made to parade in the back of the group of the strongest and stopped next to his flagship. He took a water bottle, put it in his left rear pocket, rejected a second one and left with the instructions he had received from the city, for the last part of the World Cup. There are no other strategies to follow, you need to rely only on your legs and head, you don't know how much advantage you have, you don't know who is chasing you, above all you have no one to tame your instinct. So Alaphilippe went his own way. “I am 42 years old, I told my president that I would resign because the boys would kill me - said at the end Thomas Voeckler between the serious and the facetious - and I instead want to live a little longer. Julian did the opposite of what I told him. ' Alaphilippe himself, a few days ago, told l'Équipe that losing the jersey would be a relief, not a disappointment. Instead he put his mate Madouas in front to give an acceleration and at the third good sprint he made the hole. So “Lulu 'won again, with the action of an ancient, pure, instinctive runner and for another year the world rainbow is hers.

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