Returning Fanny of the Tour de France, Julian Alaphilippe risks paying the price in the UCI ranking in the next few weeks.
Julian Alaphilippe has been a lot of time on the Tour de France, multiplying the offensives as in his habits. In vain, once again. If he raised his arms well, in Carcassonne, when the 15e Step, it is only by mistake, the Frenchman, deprived of radio due to a fall, having not been warned that two runners had brought to the front.
This third place in Aude is nonetheless the best result of the former world champion on this Tour de France. The native of Saint-Amand-Montrond added two other top 10, which allowed him to mark a total of 235 points in the UCI ranking.
These results earned Julian Alaphilippe to take a nice leap in the UCI ranking on Tuesday. While he was in the 58e Place before kick off the big loop, the leader in the Tudor training found the top 50 to 42e
row. Or a progression of 16 places.
Julian Alaphilippe will lose big
But the upturn should be short -lived for Julian Alaphilippe. While he seemed to want to taste a well -deserved rest, the tricolor runner is preparing to lose the points scored at the Paris Games and especially at the Clasica San Sebastian. Eleventh of the Olympic race, he had chained with a second place in the Spanish Basque Country.
The Frenchman will therefore lose 130 points next week then another 320 the following week, which should make him go back beyond the 75e place in the global classification. And he will still have to defend the 325 points of his third place at the Montreal Grand Prix in September…
