{"id":638025,"date":"2026-04-30T06:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/638025\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T06:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:37:09","slug":"julian-alaphilippes-partner-marion-rousse-demands-patience-amidst-dreadful-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/638025\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Alaphilippe’s partner Marion Rousse demands patience amidst dreadful spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“He\u2019s struggling, he\u2019s not in shape,” admitted the former rider to HLN, laying bare the deep fatigue accumulated by the double world champion. The short-term plan is built on caution and a complete reset before pinning on a number again, to avoid rushing his body\u2019s recovery timeline.<\/p>\n

She continues: “He needs a break to get back to his level and lay foundations for the rest of the season,” she stressed. The team\u2019s primary goal is to line up their marquee rider in July at the Tour de France, a race for which they have acquired a wildcard through their 2025 exploits in yearly UCI ranking.<\/p>\n

Age doesn’t wait for anyone<\/p>\n

Despite the current setbacks, Alaphilippe is far from done with top-level cycling as he already plots his racing return with Tour de France and World Championships as the key checkpoints of 2026 for the 33-year-old rider. Even though the current generation seems to be drifting away from Alaphilippe’s reach.<\/p>\n

“There are no miracles in cycling,” Rousse said with stark realism in a recent TV appearance, acknowledging the implacable passage of time in professional sport. “And he\u2019s getting older. In the current generation, we pay dearly against riders like Pogacar, Seixas, Evenepoel, or Van der Poel,” she argued, naming the new guard that rules the top races.<\/p>\n

The French star\u2019s palmar\u00e8s is beyond dispute, with two world titles in 2020 and 2021, a Monument title from Milano-Sanremo in 2019, and three wins on the La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne’s trademark ascent Mur de Huy in 2018, 2019, and 2021.<\/p>\n

\"Julian<\/p>\n

Julian Alaphilippe would definitely like to relive his glory days of few years ago at least one more time<\/p>\n

Loulou can rise again<\/p>\n

While his dominance has ebbed over recent seasons, the rider\u2019s winning instinct remains intact and still surfaces in moments that captivate fans worldwide. “It\u2019s too soon to write Julian off,” his partner warned, calling for respect for his imposing stature.<\/p>\n

“He still loves what he does. And I think he can still achieve great things: not across an entire season, but in flashes of brilliance,” she concluded.<\/p>\n

After two meager campaigns in 2022 and 2023, Alaphilippe seemed to have rediscovered part of his passion the past two seasons as he managed to claim a Giro d’Italia stage win in 2024, and triumphed at GP de Qu\u00e9bec<\/a> last autumn. Another big triumph would definitely suit the autumn of Alaphilippe’s career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “He\u2019s struggling, he\u2019s not in shape,” admitted the former rider to HLN, laying bare the deep fatigue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,11255,238321,82,127753],"class_list":["post-638025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-julian-alaphilippe","tag-marion-rousse","tag-sports","tag-tudor-pro-cycling-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}