Julian Alaphilippe proved in the twelve months to the most outstanding rider in the peloton.
World star from Huy to Huy
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Julian Alaphilippe is Jakob Fuglsang to get on the Wall of Huy and renews his victory in the Flèche wallonne. Eric Lalmand/belga
Julian Alaphilippe proved in the twelve months to the most outstanding rider in the peloton.
World star from Huy to Huy
4th place in
4 questions
Lambrecht impresses with fourth place
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HoeiHet speed with Julian Alaphilippe. Twelve months ago he achieved at the Wall of Huy his first high-profile victory, yesterday repeated the 26-year-old Frenchman, that piece of art, and in the meantime, he is an authoritarian leader in the World Ranking. Question is, who him Sunday from a double win in the Ardennes. “I try to Liège to win’, said he with a significant wink. The opposition is notified.
What Mathieu van der Poel in the past weeks did was an awful punishment, but what Julian Alaphilippe from Huy to Huy from the legs shook, is still on a different level. In one year he achieved eighteen victories, including two times in the Walloon Arrow, two fantastic Tour-stages, the Clasicá San Sebastian, Strade Bianche and Milan-Sanremo. And we’re still not over his polka dot jersey and the missed opportunity of last Sunday on his first Amstel Gold Race. “Those are things that now happen. Sunday immediately after the finish I was disappointed, but ultimately, only one price, eh. I remember in the Amstel that I’m on forty miles of the streak itself the contest have broken up. And, as in the Brabant Arrow nice and walked. Do not forget that I in the place of to work out, after that crash in the Tour of the Basque country, especially, had to hope that my body would soon recover from the bruises. I Had today again lost, then would the ground not under my feet are sunk, you know. After that victory in Milan-Sanremo, I consider everything I have meepak as a bonus. And I think that I myself today on a nice way to follow up. That counts. All was well after exemplary ploegwerk. Especially after I on thick forty kilometers from the end of the bike had to change, because there is one three spokes from my front wheel had driven.’
‘His’ Chemin
des: One
The up winding Chemin des: One in Huy remains forever the most important street in the career of the energetic son of a professional musician Jacques. It was there that the Frenchman four years ago, his business card showed her, by second to be behind the then undisputed Valverde,what he was four days repeated in liège-Bastogne-Liège. “I drove here, never outside the first two,” says Alaphilippe yesterday. “I have here, of course, a fairly high expectations of myself.’
‘I also feel that gradually the fatigue, but I’m still motivated to
also in Liège something out of it’
Last year, when he Valverde to four seconds drove, forgot Alaphilippe still the zegegebaar to make, this time it was the difference with Fuglsang even smaller, already shouted, he now. “It was also more difficult. But then I see that I have a lot of maturity have won. In the past, I had great geënerveerd. By the strong wind coming from all corners blew, it was very nervous courses. That was not only difficult for my body but for my head. I am calmer, become, maintaining the overview, and on the Wall itself accelerated I at the right moment: not too early, not too late. All was Jakob Fuglsang is already an angry customer.’
The friends with everyone was also full of praise for the Dane, who he is yesterday, as in the Strade Bianche knocked, and with whom he also Sunday in the Dutch-Limburg was on the road. “Jacob is a real. He is always there for. A modest boy who himself is love hurts on the bike, just as I do. He is not the type for whom you must fear that you are a dagger in the back is going to fail. I’m happy with him in the lead, even though we are two different drivers. It is said that I was much more explosive, but on the Wall he took off from far, far away. And very, very, very powerful. Only in the last thirty meters I could have him accelerated. I will get him Sunday, however once again encounter. Because yes, I am motivated to get there also in liège-Bastogne-Liège is still something out of it. Even if also feel I gradually the fatigue… Well, since Monday I have yet congé.’ (wink)
Results: 1. Julian ALAPHILIPPE (Fra/Deceuninck – Quick Step) 195.0 km in 4u55’14” (avg.: 39.63 km/h); 2. Jakob Fuglsang (Den); 3. Diego Ulissi (Ita) 6”; 4. Bjorg Lambrecht 8”; 5. Maximilian Schachmann (Ger); 6. Bauke Mollema (Ned); 7. Patrick Konrad (Austria); 8. Michael Matthews (Aus); 9. Jelle Vanendert 11”; 10. Enrico Gasparotto (Ita); 11. Alejandro Valverde (Spa); 12. Benoit Cosnefroy (Fra); 13. Romain Bardet (Fra); 14. Dylan Teuns; 15. Laurens De Plus; 16. Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol); 17. Tim Wellens 15”; 18. Guillaume Martin (Fra) 19”; 19. Rudy Molard (Fra) 23”; 20. Sergio Luis Henao (Col) 25”
4th place in
4 questions
Lambrecht impresses with fourth place
After his handsome sixth place Sunday in the Amstel Gold Race reed Bjorg Lambrecht, only 22, in the Walloon Pïjl to a fine fourth place. ‘It is incredible’, said the pocket-climber. ‘Fifth in the Brabantse pijl last Sunday, sixth in the Amstel, now this result. Here I could this winter only dream of.’
Already on 29 km of the line crossed Lambrecht for the first time, his nose to the window. He accelerated on the last time Wall of Huy. ‘Anticipate and are leaders Tim Wellens and Jelle Vanendert in a seat places’, everyone thought. Error, as it turned out. “That was no attack. I knew that after the Wall of Huy, a strip followed where the wind in the she stood, and where a range would be drawn. I can’t do that, so I tried the group to thin out, and everyone à bloc, so that they no longer would have. I gave myself a bit of powers, but I thought there as still more to save for the final climb.’
Wellens was at Lotto-Soudal, the man who had to anticipate it, but in the final lap came to say that he is also the sprint uphill wanted to wait and see. He turned as the first, co-leader Jelle Vanendert as a second, Lambrecht only as the tenth. “I’ve been there on the final climb everything squeezed. And look: I was able to use the great ones to join. But it was awfully hard. It was sprinting until I cross-saw. There was nothing more in my legs. I could after the finish even if my foot is not out of my klikpedaal make it.” (bvc, gvdl)
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