At the end of a 2025 -mixed France Tour de France for French cycling, Paul Seixas is expected as the Messiah on the event next year.
Beautiful eighth of the Dauphiné last month, Paul Seixas did not feel ready yet to attack The Grail des Grands ToursNot armed enough to his taste from the top of his 18th birthday. “It is sure that it is a dream to go around, but it is not supposed to do it now,” he consented after his world coronation in the junior trial test in September 2024.
Next year, it could be a little early but the young tricolor talent is mature sufficiently according to the observers to try his luck finally on the big loop. “” I am in favor of what he does the Tour de France, and this from 2026dixit Dominique Serieys, the director general of the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale formation recently on RMC. If you don’t, you don’t have experience. “”
Experience to take for seixas
A postulate that the former pro Jérôme Coppel held, now a consultant on the same waves. “” He has to learn to discover the turn and all that it represents: the media pressure, the public, an ultra -raised tray, the helicopters, the borders … It would be normal for him to know air holes but he needs this preparation. The Giro and the Vuelta is very good, but it is not the level of the Tour. If your goal is to win the Tour, you have to go around! “”
“” I think Seixas must try the tour next year, with a big team around him. Not to get a good place to the general but to learn from the best, adds Jérôme Pineau, another former renowned French runner. I imagine it showing up on two or three stages, sign a good time against the world gratin, and try mountain blows. If it comes to the Tour in 2026, it will only be to learn and have experience. “”
Pogacar was not so early
“” You have to stop saying it might burn him! It’s totally false, insists Jérôme Coppel. It is well surrounded and the idea would be that it goes without pressure, with the first objective to finish it, to take a cash register on a three -week race. He would be there to try things, without thinking of the general. “And even if the interested party would not be surprised to see Paul Seixas” finish in the top 15 “, Or even” Win a stage of the Tour as soon as next year ».
Freshly winner of his fourth Tour de France, Tadej Pogacar had tasted the Grands Tours for the first time on the Vuelta 2019, at 20 years old. With three stage victories and third place in the general classification at the key. A year later, he tackled the Tour de France by styling the first of his four crowns. Never has a runner triumph over the big loop since 1904 and Henri Cornet, just 20 spring then.
