Jullian Alaphilippe explains to L'Équipe in an interview the reasons why he will not participate in the Tour de France after the serious crash at Liège-Bastogne-Liège . A difficult decision to digest, given that the world champion tried in every way to recover to be the protagonist of the home race, the Grande Boucle :

  “I'm barely digesting it and I need some time, but yes, I understand it. It's hard to accept because I've worked so hard for it. I left for an internship in Sierra Nevada (Spain) just over three weeks after my fall (April 24). If I hadn't thought I would be able to do the Tour, I would never have resumed training so early. But I repeat: I understand my team's choice. At the French championship I suffered a lot when I was in a supporting role. During the Tour, I could not have afforded to stay warm in the group. I couldn't bear to spend my month of July in pain. I am disappointed and sad not to be a part of it. But it gives me perspective to better prepare my end-of-season goals.  

The speed, over 70 km / h, the impact and above all the impact noise. What struck me most was finding myself having difficulty breathing, feeling this thing invading you ... (stops) You can't do anything anymore, you can't control anything anymore. You feel almost dying ... I am moved to talk about it. No one had seen me in the ditch, apart from Romain Bardet who tried to help me when he saw my condition. I will be eternally grateful to him for his gesture towards me.

  I'm not the same as before, that's for sure. Before this fall I had already experienced a very complicated year, I was not always where I wanted to be physically. There have been a lot of setbacks, I got sick, I fell three times, I asked myself a lot of questions. This fall in Liege added to all this and left its mark. It was by far the most serious of my career, it changed a lot of things. It's part of me, it's the reason I'm like this now. I have changed, I take things differently ».

Alaphilippe has set himself three goals for the season finale: the Vuelta (19 August-11 September), the World Championships (25 September) and the Giro di Lombardia (8 October). Therefore, the advice for Fantacycling is to sell it, if you still have it in your team, and monetize it (check how many exchanges you have), since Alaphilippe has a value of 46 fantamillioni . Then you can decide to bet on him again for the season finale in which, if we know him at least a little, he will try to be the protagonist again.

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