Awesome a amazing week on the Critérium du Dauphiné, Paul Seixas displays times passing ahead of the Slovenian monster.
Does tricolor cycling finally hold its prodigy? He is allowed to think so much Paul Seixas, from the age of 18, impressed everyone on the roads of the Critérium du Dauphinée. If a fall during the last stage earned him back to eighth row in the general classification, his presence in the top 10 and beaten on all terrains have marked the spirits.
Eighth of the time trial won by Remco Evenepoel, he then held the shock during the three mountain stages and some already see the successor of Bernard Hinault, the last French to have won the Tour de France, almost 40 years ago. It is acquired that the Rhodanian will not be at the start of the Grande Boucle, but his promises displayed this week necessarily make salivate.
Paul Seixas has already entered history books. At 18 and 264 days old, he has indeed become the youngest runner in history to integrate the top 10 of a large race in stages, the native of Lyon erasing a record over 60 years old when Gilbert Bellone, at only 19 years and 137 days, ranked 9e from the Romandie Tour 1962.
Almost two years ahead of Tadej Pogacar
Even Tadej Pogacar, a true precocity monster, has never done so well at his age. At 18, the Slovenian discovered the continental circuit with the Slovenian Ro-Ljubljana team and was to be satisfied with second zone races, between the Tour of Hungary, where he still classified 3eThe Tour of Slovenia, with a fifth place to the key, or races reserved at least 23 years old.
The native of Klanec had to wait almost two years and his arrival in UAE to discover the World Tour. For his first race with his new runners he ran the Down Under tour and ranked 13e. Three months later, he signed his first top 10 in a large stage race by hoisting himself in sixth place in the Tour du Pays Basque. At over 20 and a half.
