The Latest Breaking News from Julian Alaphilippe

Cavendish won the British National Road Championship title on Sunday.

Cavendish had hoped to be selected after an impressive 2021 Tour saw him equal Eddy Merckx’s record of 34 stage victories

Liege (Belgium) (AFP) - World champion Julian Alaphilippe hit a tree in a mass fall 60km from the finish line of the  Liege-Bastogne-Liege one-day cycling classic on Sunday before being rushed to hospital complaining of severe back pain.

Liege (Belgium) (AFP) - Last year's champion Tadej Pogacar will miss Sunday's Liege-Bastogne-Liege to be with his grieving fiancee after the death of her mother, opening the door for his rivals in the fourth Monument of the season.

Liege (Belgium) (AFP) - World champion Julian Alaphilippe has the opportunity to put some embarrassing near misses behind him when again attempts to win cycling's Liege-Bastogne-Liege on Sunday.

Overijse (Belgium) (AFP) - New York teenager Magnus Sheffield broke away for a solo triumph at cycling's Brabantse Pijl one-day classic on Wednesday while world champion Julian Alaphilippe crashed after his own team car caused a domino effect of falls.

Milan (AFP) - Tadej Pogacar and Julian Alaphilippe will do battle on Saturday as a trio of Italian cycling races over the next two weeks begins with the Strade Bianche.