It’s an idyll that displeases. Consultant for France Télévisions and director of the Women’s Tour, Marion Rousse is also the wife of runner Julian Alaphilippe. The cyclist who is going through two complicated seasons intends to return to the top of the bill during the Paris Olympic Games this summer, consequently abandoning the Tour de France. If the two lovebirds have the perfect love, there is someone who takes a dim view of this. This is Julian Alaphilippe’s manager, Patrick Lefevere.
So, last February, he did not mince his words, believing that Marion Rousse was a bad influence on the runner. “I think there were too many parties and too much alcohol at his house.“, blurted out the boss of Soudal Quick-Step in the columns of the weekly
Humo. And to reproach: “Julian is seriously under Marion’s spell. May be too much.“Remarks which did not leave the main interested party indifferent.
Marion Rousse’s scathing response to the attacks
Neither one nor two, Marion Rousse was quick to answer him, via his Instagram account. “Whatever Mr. Lefevere’s feelings towards me, it is unacceptable to attack our private life as he is doing,” she began, before put the dots on the I : “So no, I don’t drink alcohol, ever. Missed for the holidays too because with a three year old, we prefer to be in shape in the morning. You will also not succeed, as you have already told me, in stopping me from working to keep myself busy and stay with Julian for the duration of his career. Please now stop talking indiscriminately and show more respect and… class.“
Four months later, Marion Rousse no longer seems to hold it against Patrick Lefevere. His focus was sufficient. “I said what I had to say. Besides,
this manager apologized“, she underlines in the columns of TV Magazine this Tuesday, June 18. Above all, she is delighted that her darling has proven her wrong. “Since his stage victory at the Giro, Julian showed him he was wrong“, she confirms.
Is Marion Rousse’s career suffering from her romance with Julian Alaphilippe?
And to justify his speech: “As for me, I had to respond too. I do my job well, I am very professional in my various activities, but I have a private life, like everyone else. This does not mean that this will put a brake on my career or that it will collide. I’m passionate about cycling, I love commenting on performances, whether Julian’s or not.“Enough to close the debate once and for all.
