Alaphilippe was the victim of a gliding flight during the Tour of Flanders.

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Ten days after his spectacular fall on the Tour of Flanders, Julian Alaphilippe had his hand operated.

Plates to keep as well as threads and a plaster to remove in ten days but nothing too serious for the world champion.

A lesser evil.

Because he admits to having freaked out, in the columns of

L'Equipe

.

“I have never experienced a fall like this, so frightening.

Sometimes you can feel that it is not going to pass and that you are going to fall;

you are in a bend where it slips and you feel that you cannot avoid the fall… But there… Now, I can say that I am doing well, it could have been much more serious.

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Not van der Poel's fault but ...

Despite everything, the leader of the Deceuninck-Quick Step training says he doesn't blame anyone.

Neither the rider, who was thinking of stopping everything, nor Mathieu van der Poel, whose blind gap in front of the bike was fatal.

“I didn't hear the sound of the motorbike, we were going fast… I'm not saying it's Van der Poel's fault, who doesn't warn me.

I'm not saying it's the motorcycle rider's fault, who has nothing to do with it.

No, no, no ... I heard that the biker was angry with himself, that he was not well with this story.

He must not be worried.

I hope this interview will reassure him.

I don't blame him, it's a race fact.

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"I'll be back"

Not resentful, therefore, the French nonetheless deplores the lack of communication between riders in certain race conditions, citing as an example the fall of Greg van Avarmaet in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, trapped by a directional island that no one had reported to him. existence.

“And unfortunately, ends the French, he hurt himself, his season ended there.

“That of the French too, even if the Ronde was whatever happens his last race in 2020. In any case, he has not finished with the Tour of Flanders.

“I want to come back, and this time without falling.

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Tour of Flanders: "I feel guilty", the biker at the origin of the fall of Alaphilippe thinks of "stopping everything"

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