Every day, the morning of Europe 1 looks back on one of the sporting events that make the news.
This Monday, Virginie Phulpin looks back on the fabulous victory of Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe who won the rainbow jersey this Sunday at Imola.
He becomes the new cycling world champion after a very complicated Tour de France.
Julian Alaphilippe is the cycling world champion. The French won this Sunday at Imola, 23 years after the last French victory, that of Laurent Brochard in 1997. For Virginie Phulpin, the rainbow color of the world champion's jersey is the best possible symbol of what is coming. to succeed Julian Alaphilippe.
Yes, it looks like a ray of sunshine coming through the rain.
This rainbow jersey illuminated our gray Sunday and our gloomy thoughts.
Yes, French cycling still has colors!
A week after the arrival of the Tour de France where our riders still had their share of bad luck, between this damn bogus handed to Julian Alaphilippe when it was not necessary and which made him lose the yellow jersey and this damned fall of Thibaut Pinot in the first step.
We ended up saying to ourselves that the plans that go off without a hitch were not for us.
You only had to watch the Pogacar star and the Jumbo Visma train pass by if you wanted to dream of a bright future.
But no, everything is never all white or all black in the land of sport.
Look at these colors of the rainbow on Julian Alaphilippe's world champion jersey!
Since the loss of the yellow jersey on the Tour, he has set himself on this World Cup goal.
And he led the entire France team in his wake.
It was the entire team that engaged in a completely controlled race.
From the coach to all the riders, everyone has played their part perfectly, in a race to the plateau yet very tough.
It is therefore possible that a French rider has a plan and goes to the end without anything going off the rails.
We are not used to it!
And we take all the more advantage of this clearing which warms our hearts.
Behind this perfectly mastered shot, we especially remember the emotion of Julian Alaphilippe.
The tears of the champion on the podium are a bit ours.
Years of frustration, suffering, years of building a magnificent track record and touching on your dreams, between those magical days spent in yellow on the Tour and those disappointed hopes to achieve this consecration yesterday.
There are so many mixed feelings that surface in Julian Alaphilippe's tears and in ours.
The runner represented in a few minutes on the podium all the humanity that characterizes him.
A whole champion, on edge.
And it is these emotions that Virginie Phulpin wants to retain, more than the numbers, this first French world champion for 23 years.
Obviously that allows us to measure its performance.
But it's so much more than that.
Yes, subconsciously, it will put a coin back in the fantasy machine, "what if he could win the Tour de France?".
Because since this Sunday, we think again that anything is possible.
Julian Alaphilippe is world champion, now we have the proof, after the rain comes the good weather, with a rainbow to perfect the moment.