Alaphilippe set for comeback after two-month absence

• Julian Alaphilippe will return from injury at Sunday’s French Championships.
• The 30-year-old suffered multiple fractures during April’s Liege-Bastogne-Liege.
• His team-mate Remco Evenepoel will also race this weekend.

Double world road cycling champion Julian Alaphilippe will make his return after two months out injured at Sunday’s French Championships, his Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team announced on Tuesday.

Frenchman Alaphilippe, 30, suffered multiple fractures during April’s Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

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His team-mate Remco Evenepoel will also race this weekend, but in Belgium.

“The week of the National Championships is one of the best of the year,” Quick-Step’s sports director Tom Steels said in a statement.

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“You’ve got a lot of racing happening in many countries and our riders are all motivated to get some good results,” he added.

Alaphilippe’s return on a 241.7km run starting and finishing in Cholet, near Nantes, will come a matter of days before the Tour de France begins in Copenhagen on July 1.

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His presence on the Tour, at which he has worn the race leader’s yellow jersey in the last three editions, is uncertain.