US EditionFormer Double World Champion Julian Alaphilippe, Reported Ill, Abandons Elite Men's Road Race After Just 31 Kilometres
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Sick since Saturday night, the two-time world champion (2020 and 2021) had to give up on Sunday in Kigali (Rwanda).
Two-time world champions in 2020 and 2021, Julian Alaphilippe left the World Cycling Championships in the first laps of the Kigali circuit this Sunday morning.
Julian Alaphilippe, visibly weakened, left the online race of the Worlds after about 30 kilometers of race. The event took place on Sunday 28 September in Kigali, during a race marked by numerous "attacks" and an intense start to the race. A few days before the race, Julian had revealed that he had almost given up taking part in the Worlds.
The two-time French world champion, who was ill, couldn't keep up with the pace and gave up from the first kilometers of the world championships in Kigali (Rwanda) on Sunday, September 28.
It's over for Julian Alaphilippe. The double world champion (2020, 2021) hoped to shine on the Kigali race this weekend, but he was forced to give up from the start, victim of a food poisoning that occurred in the night before the event, as reported by the team. A hard blow that slows down from the start the ambitions of the Blues. Weakened, Alaphilippe abandoned from the first kilometers. "I'm not going to go 260 kilometers like this," he recog…
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