Julian Alaphilippe has acknowledged that his spring Classics campaign is effectively a write-off this year, saying that he is "already thinking about the Tour de France".
Alaphilippe struggled to be competitive in March and then injured his knee in a crash at the Tour of Flanders. That has forced him out of this Sunday's Amstel Gold Race and next Wednesday's La Flèche Wallonne, and possibly also next Sunday's Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
