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“It was just a nightmare,” Bardet said at the finish to cycling website VeloNews. Such was the severity of Alaphilippe’s condition that Romain Bardet – a rival from another team – put aside his own hopes of victory to scramble to his compatriot’s aid.īardet stayed with Alaphilippe until trained medics arrived. The Frenchman crashed 60 kilometers from the finish in a mass pile-up that decimated much of the peloton, fell down a ditch, hit a tree, and was initially hidden from view by foliage. “His condition is stable, but will need to be hospitalised for observation,” the statement continued. In the crash, Alaphilippe “suffered two broken ribs, a broken scapula and a hemo pneumothorax ,” according to a statement released by his team, QuickStep AlphaVinyl. World champion Julian Alaphilippe sustained multiple injuries after hitting a tree at high speed during Sunday’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège – one of cycling’s most prestigious one-day races.
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