Tour de France: Alaphilippe celebrates on stage 15 … but discovers Wellens won long before him
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Radio damage meant Alaphilippe unaware of Belgian’s win
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Wellens had crossed line over a minute before Frenchman
French stage wins in the Tour de France are increasingly rare, so when they do happen, there are wild celebrations. Julian Alaphilippe, the former world road race champion, raised his arms in triumph in Carcassonne, thinking he had won, only to be told seconds later that he had in fact finished third behind two Belgians.
Ahead of the crestfallen Alaphilippe, Tadej Pogacar’s Emirates-XRG teammate Tim Wellens took a solo win on stage 15 of the Tour, well ahead of compatriot Victor Campanaerts, a teammate to Jonas Vingegaard.