Alepcin-Deceuninck have experienced the full range of emotions at this Tour de France. They won stages one and two, were in the yellow and green jerseys, but then their two star men, Jasper Philipsen and Mathieu van der Poel, went home. The former with a broken collarbone and the latter with pneumonia.
Rebounding from such heavy exits would be a difficult talk for any of the Tour’s 23 teams but especially Alpecin. Their identity is Van der Poel and Philipsen, and they don’t make any attempt at pretending otherwise.
