{"id":36371,"date":"2025-07-31T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/36371\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:34:10","slug":"julian-alaphilippe-withdraws-from-the-clasica-san-sebastian-with-respiratory-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/36371\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Alaphilippe withdraws from the Clasica San Sebastian with respiratory issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/julian-alaphilippe\" title=\"Julian Alaphilippe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julian Alaphilippe<\/a> has withdrawn from the 2025 Clasica San<br \/>\nSebastian, which takes place this Saturday August 2nd. The Frenchman<br \/>\nwon the race back in 2018, and finished second in last year\u2019s edition, but the<br \/>\nformer world champion won\u2019t get the chance to ride for victory this weekend.<br \/>\nHaving just completed the Tour de France, the Tudor Pro Cycling rider began to<br \/>\nshow symptoms of an upper respiratory infection in the last week. His team has<br \/>\ndecided the best option is now to rest.<\/p>\n<p>Alaphilippe\u2019s best result at the Tour was on stage 15, when<br \/>\nat the finish in Carcassonne he finished third and beat Wout van Aert in the<br \/>\nsprint. But, with his earpiece not working, Alaphilippe actually thought he had<br \/>\nwon the stage, as he did not know two riders had gone up the road. This time,<br \/>\nAlaphilippe was actually celebrating too late! But, Alaphilippe showed decent form on his return to the Tour, and would have been one of the outsiders for victory this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Cl\u00e1sica de San Sebasti\u00e1n is infamous for its demanding<br \/>\ncourse, brutal for riders just days after the Tour. Unlike many other one day<br \/>\nraces that favour sprinters or classics specialists, the Cl\u00e1sica is a true test<br \/>\nfor climbers and the strongest of puncheurs. The race\u2019s defining features are<br \/>\nits rolling steep, punchy climbs, which often culminate in the decisive ascent<br \/>\nof the Jaizkibel and Arkale. In recent years, Remco Evenepoel has often come<br \/>\nout on top, with three victories to his name.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Many top riders are on the start list this year, including<br \/>\nJuan Ayuso, Isaac del Toro, Mikel Landa, and even recent fourth place finisher<br \/>\nat the Tour de France, Oscar Onley. But, Julain Alaphilippe will not be one of<br \/>\nthe starters this year, as he rests ahead of the final part of his season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julian Alaphilippe has withdrawn from the 2025 Clasica San Sebastian, which takes place this Saturday August 2nd. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-36371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}