Julian Alaphilippe's troubles continue, with the two-time world cไhampion's Ardennes Classics campaign further disrupted after a knee injury sustained at the Tour of Flanders. 

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alaphilippe has been forced out of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Amstel Gold Race this Sunday and will also miss next Wednesday's La Flèche Wallonne, his team have confirmed to Cyclingnews.

The former world champion's participation in 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the fourth Monument of the season and the final race of t⛄he Spring Classics, is up in the air as things stand. 

Alaphilippe endured a difficult 2022 season marred by crashes, COVID-19 and illness.  His ൲2023 season is following a similar the🐼me. 

Illness heldꦅ him back at the cobbled Classics and he was below his best at his first major season target, the Tour of Flanders, where a crash has thrown his Ardennes campaign into disarray. 

Soudal-QuickStep team boss said at Sunday's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix that Alaphilippe was "still in misery" due ൩to the knee ▨impact involved and stated that he would miss Amstel Gold Race. 

The team have since confirmed that the Frenchman will miss La Flèche Wallonne, a race he has won three times. A decision on Liège-Bastogne-Li&eg💮rave;ge will be taken 😼next week. 

Alaphilippe is back training again but his appearance in La Doyenne, a race he has nearly ꦛwon on three occasions, remai♏ns in doubt. 

Alaphilippe finished second on his debut at the race in 2015 but it hasn't been his happiest hunting ground since. He was ruled out of the 2017 Ardennes campaign with a knee injury, crashed out horrifically last year, missed out to Tadej Pogačar in 2021 and, most famously, celebrated at the line in 2020 only to be beaten by Primoz Roglic then relegated for an illegal manoeuvre. 

Even if Alaphilippe doesn't line up next Sunday, Soudal-QuickStep will have one of the outstanding favourites 💝in Remco Evenepoel, who soloed to victory 12 months ago to take his first Monument title. 

Evenepoeꦰl will defend his Liège title as a parenthesis to his preparations for the Giro d'Italia, which have seen him win the UAE Tour and place second at Volta a Catalunya as well as a series of altitude training camps. 

Reports that Evenepoel would parachute in for Amstel Gold Race this Su𝔉nday proved baseless, word having spread from a fake Facebook account set up to 🦹mimic Soudal-QuickStep manager Patrick Lefevere. 

A similar hype was generated just before the Tour of Flanders, with Evenepoel teasing fans via social media before boarding a flight for Tenerife, where heꦉ has been training in early April with his teammates for the Gi🐠ro. 

Soudal-QuickStep are also missing Mauri Vansevenant with a knee in🥀jury and will be led at Amstel and Flèche by Andrea Bagioli and Mauro Schmid.