Two months and two days after crashing out of Liège-Bastogne-Liège,
Julian Alaphilippe will return to racing at the
National championships and is likely cementing his position in the Tour de France lineup.
The Frenchman
crashed into a ditch whilst riding the fourth monument of the season, a terrifying mass-crash that affected several riders but likely he got the worst of it, having fractured his scapula, two ribs and suffered a pneumothorax. Ever since his time in the hosptial in Herentals, he and the team talked of "a race against time" to return in time for the Tour de France, and the signs are good after he concluded a training camp in Sierra Nevada with his teammates.
