{"id":213286,"date":"2025-06-25T13:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213286\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T13:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T13:53:10","slug":"julian-alaphilippe-forced-to-miss-french-national-championships-for-first-time-since-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213286\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Alaphilippe forced to miss French National Championships for first time since 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ouest-france.fr\/sport\/cyclisme\/championnats-de-france\/cyclisme-julian-alaphilippe-sera-absent-des-championnats-de-france-en-vendee-3f00d59c-511a-11f0-9d8f-210ccc004fd7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to a report by Ouest-France<\/a>, Alaphilippe and his advisors have made the difficult decision to skip the fight the for the French national champion&#8217;s jersey in 2025 due to fatigue the Frenchman is suffering a busy week of racing last time out at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-de-suisse\" title=\"Tour de Suisse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour de Suisse<\/a>.Alaphilippe finished a very impressive 5th overall in Switzerland last week, but after heading into the final stage time trial on the podium, he was already showing signs of fatigue as a disappointing TT saw him slip down the general classification rankings. As such, and with a return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-de-france\" title=\"Tour de France\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour de France<\/a> in mind, it&#8217;s understood that Alaphilippe and his team decided the best option for him was to rest up and relax, a decision described by the Frenchman to Ouest as: &#8220;Heartbreaking.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a report by Ouest-France, Alaphilippe and his advisors have made the difficult decision to skip the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-213286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114744341563218328","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}