Did Alaphilippe cheat?

Did Alaphilippe cheat?

The way in which Julian Alaphilippe got back into the peloton after having a puncture in the final of the 3rd stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné has been debated.

The day after his splendid stage victory on Monday, Julian Alaphilippe had a more difficult day on Tuesday. The fault in the first place to the fall of which he was the victim. But this time, the Frenchman, who fell on the grass, escaped without damage. It was not the same with his bike, the wheels of which he had to change twice, the last of which just 6 kilometers from the finish.

As the sprinter teams began to grind for the final packing, the 22 seconds behind then displayed by the double world champion tricolor could have been difficult to fill. His teammate Mauri Vansevenant did not hesitate to wait for him to help him. Without success… Julian Alaphilippe indeed came back like a bomb, rejoining the peloton two kilometers from the finish.

The commissioners would have the right to verbalize it

To achieve this, the native of Saint-Amand-Montrond went up the line of sports directors’ cars, driving behind their bumpers to benefit from suction. A questionable way of doing things. Even among the commentators of France Télévisions. If Nicolas Geay, who officiated at the comments, reminded several times that it was tolerated, Laurent Jalabert did not fail to recall that “The commissioners would have the right to verbalize it”. “There is the rule and the spirit of the rule”he explained.

As usual, Antoine Vayer, former healer at Festina and doping slayer, was more severe. “If he hit his wife he would dissociate the man from his work. Loulou is covered everywhere, TV, organization, press…”, he wrote on Twitter.

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