Tour de France 2018: Alaphilippe, with polka dots

The French did not really know him yet, it's now done: by winning the polka dot jersey with two stage victories, Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors) entered the great gate in the history of the Tour de France

"I have trouble realizing we are on the most beautiful avenue in the world, the Tour has just ended and I have the polka dot jersey on the shoulders. It's too much for me, there are plenty of people, you have to live it to know what it's like, if I've made people happy and dreamed about some people it's just happiness. " , he said on arrival.

Offensive, the native of Saint-Amand Montrond was in all good shots, ravishing the shirt to the previous winner Warren Barguil too short on this Tour de France. He won in the end with 91 points ahead of his dolphin and 94 over Rafal Majka .

Alaphilippe ensured the conquest of the 2018 polka dot jersey at the stage of Laruns (19th stage), becoming the first rider to cross 4 out-of-category summits since the introduction of this clbadification in 1979.

A jersey he won with the way, winning two stage victories on this Grand Loop, as much as Geraint Thomas Fernando Gaviria and Dylan Groenewergen . Only Peter Sagan won more (3).

The first came in the middle of the Tour at the 10th stage. In Grand-Bornand, the winner of the Flèche Wallonne 2018 loose Rein Taaramäe in the Col de Romme to win his first solo victory on the Tour de France.

Then to Bagneres-de-Luchon (16th stage), in favor of the unfortunate fall of Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) in the final descent. But still he had to be ready to leap behind the British.

On the charts, he joined Bernard Hinault (1986), Antony Charteau (2010) or again Thomas Voeckler (2012). Only Laurent Jalabert (2001, 2002) and Richard Virenque (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2003 and 2004) reported it more than once in Paris.

Not sure that Alaphilippus made it a long-term goal, as Virenque had done before him. The 26-year-old puncher is likely to be a monument to the clbadics, but at the speed of his progress, no one knows where he will stop.