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Can Alaphilippe overcome a tough season to win at World Championships again?

Can Alaphilippe overcome a tough season to win at World Championships again?


Not a lot seems to be going right for Julian Alaphilippe (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl) in recent months, from a long injury lay off to COVID-19 on his return, but Cadel Evans knows all too well that a season that fails to go to plan doesn’t necessarily mean that all important race day at Road World Championships will follow the same path. 

Evans won the prized rainbow jersey in 2009 after earlier in the season his hopes of finally turning two years of second places into yellow at the Tour de France ended with a 30th place and then a potential Vuelta a España victory slipped away with a botched neutral service wheel change. It perhaps shouldn’t come as a surprise then that when the 2011 Tour de France winner was asked for his thoughts on who could prove a threat at the World Championships when the event returns to his home nation for the first time in 12 years this September, there wasn’t for a second any discounting riders that hadn’t had the results falling in their favour recently.

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