Credited with a particularly promising runner -up until then, Paul Seixas has dropped in the dominic ultimate stage.
Cruel outcome that that experienced this Sunday by Paul Seixas on
The Dauphiné Criterium. While he was sixth in the hierarchy on Saturday evening at the end of the queen stage of the route and after three outdated passes, the young tricolor talent experienced a nightmarish final.
In the ultimate ascent of the eighth and last act of the race, the Mont-Cenis pass, just 10 kilometers from the finish, the climber of the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale formation was taken in a fall. “” A runner mowed me, but it was not lucky “, He blown shortly after the line crossed.
The 18 -year -old Rhodanian was able to leave without much physical damage but with a twisted handlebars, which inevitably harmed his classification of the day – and a fortiori in his final ranking. In his misfortune, the interested party lost more than a minute and 30 seconds, curling the 8’25 loop of the yellow jersey, Tadej Pogacar.
Seixas: “I suffered like never before”
“” It was extremely hardhe said on arrival, so relayed by the team. I had shit sensations and it was riding. A third day difficult immediately, it was starting to do a lot, too much. This week, I suffered like never before, but I learned a lot … “”
Paul Seixas finally finished eighth in this Dauphiné – a sacred performance nevertheless, the best on the part of a French runner in this 2025 edition. “ I am very happy to finish eighth. The team has sacrificed everything to allow me to make a good place to the general. I thank them all “Concludes the prodigy.
