Julian Alaphilippe will be in contention on Wednesday in the Milan-Turin cycling event. This will be the Frenchman’s first outing since his new title as world champion.
In Italy, the rider of the Deceuninck-Quick Step formation, who has not raced since his second world title, on September 26, in Leuven (Belgium), will meet the Slovenian duetters, Tadej Pogacar, winner of the Tour, and Primoz Roglic , who won the Tour d’Emilie on Saturday. The opportunity for him to prepare well for the Tour of Lombardy, three days later. One of his goals at the start of the year.
“We love this race very much and we can’t wait to see Julian in his beautiful world champion jersey, it gives you a great feeling to know that Rainbow will be with the team for another year,” said Davide Bramati, its sporting director. . We had a great race at the start of the week at Bernocchi and we are motivated to get a good result also at Milan-Turin. It will be an important test for Saturday and we are looking forward to it. ”
World champion @ alafpolak1 will make his first outing since retaining his rainbow jersey, this Wednesday, at @ MiTo1876: https://t.co/I0Z6KD1E8Q pic.twitter.com/xjwniyzsJU
– Deceuninck-QuickStep (@deceuninck_qst) October 5, 2021
The Italian Vincenzo Nibali, recent winner of the Tour of Sicily, is also announced by the organizers (RCS) at the start of the two Italian races alongside the Canadian Michael Woods, the Briton Adam Yates and the French Thibaut Pinot.
For the difficult Tour of Lombardy, which will be run between Como and Bergamo on Saturday, RCS added the names of other team leaders (Mollema, Evenepoel, S. Yates, Bardet, Chaves, D. Martin) in its announcement.
