WTF Happened To Julian Alaphilippe | The French Two-Time World Champion

[@joelchoquette5674]

Julian has always been and I feel for a couple more years will still be exciting to watch in single day and short tours. His injuries have been his undoing recently.

[@camillelively]

Alaphilippe is the sole reason I got into pro cycling. Even now when I have a favorite team and love other riders, he is always my favorite. I could watch a compilation of every mountain descent he's ever made.

[@telmolicious]

Are u French?

[@camillelively]

@@telmolicious American :-)

[@marcostar57]

Yes, his descents are amazing to watch😅!

[@Hbirdman1994]

Great rider, got me back into road cycling with his 2019 Tour and been a fan ever since but the crashes and perhaps age have taken their toll. Would be great to see him get some more big wins next year though

[@masonlawrence767]

No ones going to talk about the correlation between the goatee and his improved results?

[@larssvensson2586]

Julian Alaphilippe has always been among my cycling heroes.

[@LETOUR7TIMESFRANCE]

Great review and thank you for the upload CD...Well appreciated my man. I'm reading some of these comments about how age and crashes caught up with Julian and I'm blown away..One has to remember the man is a RECENT back2 back World Champion hes only 31years old.

[@JohnKleman1]

I would love to see him return towards the top. He’s such an enjoyable rider to watch when he’s on form

[@jascollinscork]

Great review of his career…… the BEST french rider of a generation!!!! Crashes aside I think he was on the wrong team to exploit his talents to their full potential 🤔 AND the last year or 2 he has had to make way Remco 🙄 so is he going to a new team in 2024??

[@cedarcanoe]

Julian should leave QuickStep

[@adrianbuck8772]

Disagree about the wrong Team. In his prime he was at that time best 1 day classics Team. He was very succesfull during that strecht. The last 2 years he wasnt strong enough to match guys like Van Art, Van der Poel, Pogacar and Remco so he naturally had to adjust his Rolle.

[@klifa3838]

When he leaves QS he is not going to win anymore,just like really everyone before him who left QS thinking they could do it with an other team.

[@emersonVZLA]

Really hoping he has a good 2024 season and we get some more of his panache back into this sport that has become dull and a numbers game of late…thanks for the video retrospective of his career.

[@telmolicious]

Really? I find this to be the greatest time in cycling that I’ve witnessed and I’ve watched for 30 years. MVPD vs Wout. Add Pogi and at times Mads P. Pogi vs Jonas. Roglic in the mix. Remco on the rise. What’s not to like?

[@emersonVZLA]

@@telmolicious oh no doubt! I’m a huge fan of MVDP & WVA’s rivalry and of Pogacar, but we need more riders like Lulu, Contador, & Pinot who are not just looking at their power meters know what I mean?

[@telmolicious]

@@emersonVZLA Who is only looking at their power meter?

[@glywnniswells9480]

That crash with WVA and MVP in the sprinhg classic was the mark of his decline.

[@LETOUR7TIMESFRANCE]

You left out how he got screwed by Mother Nature @ the 2019 TDF..if that had not happened he would of won the tour

[@marcostar57]

Exactly, the final stage wasn't it?

[@marcdaniels9079]

I for one have not and never will forget this total legend. Always animates a race or a stage … a kind of modern day Tommy Vockler.

[@telmolicious]

But significantly better.

[@V5mGpYp]

after 23 minutes of a recitation of palmares.....i still have no idea WTF happened to him.....

[@donaldvanvliet9039]

Nothing😂 he keeps on keeping on.

[@marcostar57]

Kind of a dumb title.

[@thart6103]

Excellent video ❤

[@kickkkasss]

Great vid howewer, Jalabert never won the world road race. Laurent Brochard was before Julian the last French rider who won WRR, in 1997. Jaja finished second in 1992 and he also won ITT world race in 1997 !

[@thecyclingdane]

You are so right my bad hahaha

[@bq-be-bbqin]

Still a top tier rider, we'll se him back at the top of podiums, loved the vid but jumping to conclusions a bit too quickly by implying he's in his twilight years. ...yes I am biased by the fact that he's so fun to watch....even this past year when he didn't have the form he'd attack and try to stay away...indomitable spirit indeed!

[@JulianoJMC]

Julian Superstar, genuine SUPERSTAR ❤❤❤

[@deathkampdrone]

What happened to Loulou? He was on a contract with Quickstep is what happened 😓 Breaks my heart to see him as a makeshift super domestique for Remco. I wish he would go to FDJ or somewhere else where they'd appreciate him. Such a likable rider. The thing about Quickstep is that they are such a confused team. With too many big names. Do they want to be a classics team, a grandtour team, or a sprinter train?! I totally understand how it can be hard to make a descision when you have a variation of world class riders in your roster. Merlier and Fabio for the sprints, and then top names like Remco, Loulou, Asgreen, Cavagna. But ultimately it's like too many chefs in the kitchen.

[@MDP1702]

The contract with SOQ isn't the problem. He has been a leader there for years when he was good. He also only started to really domestique for Remco since his results went down, before that it was more a co-leader situation. In the '22 vuelta he even got his own shot for stage 4, he just wasn't good enough so he settled in a domestique role. Weird to name Cavagna, he never was a leader at SOQ. And overall there weren't really problems between Loulou, Asgreen and Remco's schedules. Merlier and Fabio is something else (though no just Merlier).

[@diegomontoyam6038]

Wow I never saw a video summering the carrier of a cyclist so detailed! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼You should change the tittle and review other cyclist as well! Congratulations!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@jamescaldwell7736]

Couple of bad injuries if he gets a good winter this year he can be competitive 2024 season

[@nicolascado2707]

He's back!!! ❤

[@theblackandwhitefilmproject]

Unfortunately one too many crash.

[@michaelmottlau5941]

great video👍

[@thecyclingdane]

Thank you 👍

[@anthonymiller4004]

Great rider and most importantly amazing human. He gets less opportunities now as more time is now spent supporting others. He needs a new time to find his mojo and opportunities again

[@larsarvidnilsen9396]

He was my impressive. Would like to see him back In top form

[@MrKipperfish]

"the verge of almost being forgotten" Lol, by who, m8? I suppose by people who arent watching much pro cycling?

[@davewyman]

Good career overview. But there were juat EIGHT SECONDS explaining what happened to Alaphilippe, including the illumination fact that he had set-backs. WTF?

[@marcdaniels9079]

Great observation 👍 click bait

[@SharpFitnessLook]

That was his destiny,he’s in the cycling world record books 📕 for life

[@Velodan1]

Is it possible he’s got that freaking long COVID? Peter Sagan got COVID 3xs and was no longer competitive after 2020.

[@robertcatuara5118]

Cav got it twice I think and he recovered. Not saying Jules would or wouldn't.

[@dadwhitsett]

MD here. There are biomarkers for long covid now.😮

[@Velodan1]

@@dadwhitsett Alliphilippe’s drop off was so dramatic this year. It is just conjecture after I heard he got COVID in 2022.

[@Simonewhitesim-1music]

@@Velodan1 Great point long Covid is real. It doesn't take having it twice.

[@Gianniz27]

There is no such thing. But jab poisoning effects many.

[@jpolwhit]

Jalabert didn't win the road race in 1997. He won the time trial.

[@CharlesRiley-d4t]

Between being a Alaphillipe & Roclic fan I seem to be holding my breath a lot.

[@criticalmile]

I believe his baby and wife took his attention away from focus riding 😢 he had multiple nasty crashes as well He can still rise again Same as Sagan 👍🏻🇮🇸 plus i believe he won the Tour de France not E Bernal

[@uhurupeak2001]

alaphilippe just got the same problem than remco when you have not one but 2 crashes with broken bones you need 1 or 2 years to recover same thing for pantani in 94

[@kovar2344]

Julian could have won that 2019 Tour if he was on his old rim brake bike.

[@imantserdmans3169]

Problem is, that team does not believe in him.

[@billrose2202]

He thought he broke his back in that crash. It takes years to recover from that if ever.

[@drym3943]

2019 tout the best tour in history for france.

[@Aegisth]

He became a father? Maybe his family means more to him now than cycling. And that's the way it should be. Family first.

[@mikedittsche]

Fun fact: Julian Alaphilippe is married to Marion Rousse, who is a former french road champion herself and the race director of the TDFF.

[@guillermobright3617]

He had a child, it takes away from training,.

[@trentvlak]

He had a good run. What I don't get is how a light weight rider who has the power to hang with the heavies in a 300km classic and TT with the gc guys isn't on the podium in every gt he enters? He's 62kg! Well, he's only 31 so he could bounce back and podium in the Tour or Vuelta. He really reminds me of Jaja but Jaja was dirty....

[@robertcatuara5118]

One word: Strade Bianche

[@thewidesight]

That are two words.

[@Hbirdman1994]

Laurent Brochard in 1997!

[@glennoc8585]

Gye had a few ups and downs in his private life, then he became a dad so maybe that's why his victories are less

[@Bradywhite7208]

He’s like the hot girl at the airport. Shows up and it’s crazy and then disappears and no one talks about him

[@jerrychicken967]

His career has been about 5 years so think he might be cooked. Also, Lefevre has lost his mojo so it coincides with that. Whatever Lefevre had, he seems to have lost and the results follow. Sagan though, has had a much longer career which goes beyond the five years so he's a lucky boy; 5 years seems to be the golden peroid :)

[@MDP1702]

I wouldn't say that the team has bad results. They are the 3rd highest team in terms of overall wins and WT wins (here UAE has only 5 more). That just aren't as dominant anymore in the cobble classics (and to be fair, they were just shit there past 2 seasons). Ssuch domination/height as they had in the cobble classics could never last for a long time. I also wouldn't already write of Alaphilippe, maybe he doesn't get back to his old level, but maybe he will.

[@jerrychicken967]

@@MDP1702 I think you know what I mean. They were the number one team in the world for many years. At one point they'd have a top race with three riders in the front break at the end. PR Roubaix being the maddest result with the top 3 placings. They're definitely not at that level.

[@MDP1702]

@@jerrychicken967 I wouldn't say they were the number one team in the world for many years, rather a top 3 team (which they still seem to be, just lesser in the cobble classics). 3 times in the last 12 year have they been the top 1 UCI ranking team. Problem is that a few riders have underperformed last 2 cobble seasons (Asgreen, Alaphilippe, Lampaert, ...), that they haven't been able to attract the strongest/most promising cobble riders (Van Aert, MvdP, Pogacar, De Lie, Pedersen, ...) and that other teams have "poached" their approach/place: TJV their strength in numbers tactic and Alpecin their general pure top classics team place. The only part the team really can do about it is the getting of better cobble riders (and not adapting tactics enough to circumstances).

[@jerrychicken967]

Check your facts, Mapei were "the" top team in the 90s, not sure about it's other guises of Domo etc etc @@MDP1702

[@Simon-Simon-Simon]

Watching this . What happened to all the Columbian riders

[@veggiechowder8877]

What's monoscluosis 😂😂

[@deweystace]

It’s called age.

[@aboumawiyah]

Valverde was the biggest doper in the last 20 years

[@BLITZKRIEG1]

gets injured every year 😂😂😂

[@peternilsson8133]

To many crashes

[@Eirikkinserdal]

He needs a new enviroment without Patrick Lefevre..

[@MDP1702]

Lefevere is likely to step aside in the next 2 years or so. If Lefevere is the problem, but he wants to remain at the team, he just would need to likely sit it out one more year. Though I also think their problems could be overblown by what happened in the media. Main question imo is if he would choose money or team. Unless he again reaches his old shape, his salary offer at SOQ will go down after next year imo, but a french team might offer a lot.

[@PixelVibe42]

Interesting video, crap and disrespectful title (the WTF part).

[@ccjelley2390]

I think he was suffocated by those stupid masks.

[@donquique1]

Thus dud nit age well.

[@KuriReevel]

Maybe vaxed himself

[@MDP1702]

Like everyone in the peloton who do not suffer problems?

[@rafalpruszynski1707]

Discount Kwiatkowski.