Alaphilippe, the serious accusations of his teammate

After the serious fall in Liège-Bastogne-Liège which sent Julian Alaphilippe to the hospital, Ilan van Wilder, also hard hit, is particularly angry with two riders… The controversy is still lively in the peloton after the terrible fall which sent a dozen runners down on Liège-Bastogne-Liège, and which seriously injured Julian Alaphilippe. We roughly know the circumstances of this crash: after a series of hills, several riders were trying to get back on a descent; it was rubbing, and what had to happen happened, the fall at high speed. After this incident, Romain Bardet opened the debate on the behavior of certain runners, who take too many risks. “Sometimes you have to know how to accept your placement in the race. I say that, I am not at all irreproachable either, huh. It’s a race, there is commitment, everything is not clean all the time. But there is a limit to be found and I realize that this limit is moving more and more towards the extreme”, regretted the French rider in the columns of L’Equipe. “The responsibility we have when we take risks to get a place at the front of the peloton can have serious consequences for the 100 guys who are behind us”, explained Bardet the day after the race, on Instagram. Van Wilder “really angry” Former teammate of Bardet at the DSM team, and now alongside Alaphilippe within the Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl, the Belgian Ilan van Wilder has given a layer. “With the images and testimonies that we have heard since this fall, we understand that the cause is the nervousness in the peloton. Two riders, who I won’t name, didn’t want to use their fuckin’ brakes and they were the ones who caused this huge chaos […] It really makes me angry because it puts lives at risk. This is a behavior that we see more and more in the peloton. Everyone was deeply shocked. You don’t ride a bike to see such scenes, ”explained the Belgian in the columns of the Flemish press. Like Alaphilippe, Van Wilder was also hard hit by the fall. Seriously injured in the jaw, he had to give up on the Tour of Italy, one of the main objectives of his season. 🎙 Said / 🇧🇪 @IlanWilder (QST): “Two riders, who I won’t name, didn’t want to use their f***ing brakes and they were the ones who caused this huge chaos. It really pisses me off. anger.”https://t.co/z3Wya7EjCB via @RTBF (🇧🇪) — Renaud Breban (@RenaudB31) April 30, 2022