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The former double French world champion signed up with Tudor last summer. Founded in 2022, the Swiss team has never taken part in the Tour de France and has no guarantee of doing so in 2025.
In 2025, Julian Alaphilippe plunges into the unknown. After spending ten years with Belgian outfit Soudal Quick-Step, the Frenchman joined Tudor at the start of the year to try to relaunch his career. A risky bet because the Swiss team, ranked 22nd in the world, is fighting in the second division. Only the best 18 enter the World Tour (1st division).
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Even if the team founded in 2022 is gaining in scope, in particular thanks to the recruitment of Julian Alaphilippe and Swiss Marc Hirschi, it still “depends on invitations” from the organizers of major races, according to the own admission of Fabian Cancellara, owner of Tudor.
Uncertain programming
Consequently, the programming for the year 2025 is written in dotted lines for the French. And if its team has already been invited to Paris-Nice, there is no guarantee at the moment that it will also be invited to the Tour de France, in which it has never participated since the start of its recent history. . It thus remains hanging on the lips of the organizer, awaiting a potential invitation.
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“I’m always optimistic, it’s a dream to go to the Tour,” assures Julian Alaphilippe. It's in our heads of course but it's still a long way off.” With the arrival of one of the favorites of the French public, Tudor hopes to “turn a corner” and win its place in the peloton during the biggest cycling events of the world.
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