Paul Seixas: Tour de France Winner 2031

[No Excuses]

Chapeau, i thought he will pay for following that seated watt bomb. If he keeps improving this fast, he is the biggest threat to Pogacar. I have been a bit sceptical, because progress is not always linear.

 

[Red Rick]

The Finestre stage from last year is legendary among CN experts.
Remco would've won Giro'2025: that I can tell you!

Everyone who wasn't there, would have won. Even Del Toro and he even wasn'tn't there

 

[SHAD0W93]

Let's go to the Paul!

Sandcastles in the Paul
You Just Got Pauled
Legend - wait for it - Pauly! Legendpauly! Air five

 

[Red Rick]

Okay we can now confirm he's the real deal.

Not because of Strade or Ardeche, but because Lefevere is now claiming he almost signed him once

 

[jmdirt]

It turned out to be a bit of an Icarus moment

Not really, he flew to the sky for a while, and when a stronger mythological creature passed him he continued to fly (not to close to the sun, no crashing to earth...).

 

[Netserk]

Not really, he flew to the sky for a while, and when a stronger mythological creature passed him he continued to fly (not to close to the sun, no crashing to earth...).

i thought he landed in the sea

 

[CyclistAbi]

Strong performance at SB.

 

[Juan Pelota]

Will he be considered the greatest teenager of all time by the end of the season?

 

[hayneplane]

Not really, he flew to the sky for a while, and when a stronger mythological creature passed him he continued to fly (not to close to the sun, no crashing to earth...).

That’s why I only called it a bit of a moment because he recovered.

 

[Tonton]

Goo-goo-gaa-gaa!!!

View: https://youtu.be/tlzuxUQe7N4?si=c0o1yPJ7jkooSRHK


Giving the credit to his team, being humble, yet showing confidence, not cocky, a good head on his shoulders. Paul Seixas is ready

Will he be considered the greatest teenager of all time by the end of the season?

He already is.

The question is: what's next? In an era with Teddy Merckx, Jonas The Dragon Slayer, and The New Merckx, can he be the Yautja? Not to forget The Bull, a kid may come up...who knows...Ayuso, Joao? Meh. Great riders tho'.

Bravo Paul, and merci for bringing hope to French cycling. You all know that I'm the #1 Tibopino fan, Pinot could have won a Tour, Paul will.

 

[Lorzenz08]

I was listening to some french guy analyzing his performance.

Apparently he is missing around 20 watts to be able to follow Pogi. He said he made a lot of progress recently by being able to gain weight while keeping same watts/kg. Which naturally means bigger total watt output.

2 years ago he was only 55kg, now he is around 64kg.

He also said we don't know yet how he performs on high altitude climbs (over 2000m) which the TdF ofc always has a few of.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

I was listening to some french guy analyzing his performance.

Apparently he is missing around 20 watts to be able to follow Pogi. He said he made a lot of progress recently by being able to gain weight while keeping same watts/kg. Which naturally means bigger total watt output.

2 years ago he was only 55kg, now he is around 64kg.

He also said we don't know yet how he performs on high altitude climbs (over 2000m) which the TdF ofc always has a few of.

I suppose gaining weight goes with gaining height in those last two years. It makes sense that at the age of 17-19 he was still growing gaining aerobic power and mass.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

The question is: what's next? In an era with Teddy Merckx, Jonas The Dragon Slayer, and The New Merckx, can he be the Yautja? Not to forget The Bull, a kid may come up...who knows...Ayuso, Joao? Meh. Great riders tho'.

He's good enough to be a superdom of Teddy Merckx in UAE team!

 

[Berniece]

He's good enough to be a superdom of Teddy Merckx in UAE team!

You want to create a TDF 2012 type of situation where Seixas has to wait like Froome did?

 

[Krzysztof_O]

You want to create a TDF 2012 type of situation where Seixas has to wait like Froome did?

Seriously though, it's likely that UAE will show $$$ and want to buy Seixas for 2027 already. I do think they could give him Tour leadership already from 2028 on: Pogacar doesn't enjoy the Tour and at some point (after getting at least to #5) will want to decide the whole schedule by himself (so basically classics + Vuelta or Giro).

 

[Rob5091]

By the sounds of it, we're in for the mother of all contract deals.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

He's good enough to be a superdom of Teddy Merckx in UAE team!

This makes me unsure if you have followed the news recently, don't you think the world we live in is already dystopian enough?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

He also said we don't know yet how he performs on high altitude climbs (over 2000m) which the TdF ofc always has a few of.

They went above 2000 metres twice at Avenir and once at Dauphiné last year.

Also, if it actually were to be his achilles heel, then you can bet the farm on the Tour suddenly not climbing anything higher than Tourmalet for a good few years.

 

[Unchained]

Watched some of Strade rebroadcast this morning and just so happened to turn it on with @88 to go.. Pogacar is raising speed in the group, at about @85..85.5 he starts to separate, Seixas tried to follow but couldn't keep the pace but Del Toro couldn't keep secondary pace with Seixas, who was dropping Del Toro, it's like the teenager waits for Isaac only to discover he won't work to pull back his leader. Don't know if Seixas had an @80 kilometer ITT ride in him but he was obviously not as fast as Tadej but is obviously faster than everyone else.

 

[Unchained]

By the sounds of it, we're in for the mother of all contract deals.

I read the Vaughters interview about UAE offering almost double the offer for Del Toro.. There appears to be some positive vibes coming from Decathlon..like they have funding enough to keep team intact. Don't know how much they pay Felix Gall , Riccitello, and Paul Lapeira ..I really hope that they have financial headroom to give Seixas a good multi year deal. It will make racing better if talent is more divided. UAE concentration has people angry about the stacked roster. Many teams don't have money to sign him

 

[Rob5091]

Ineos reportedly paid between 4 and 6 million Euros to get Onley to break his contract, so what are we looking at for Seixas? 10 million?

 

[Unchained]

Ineos reportedly paid between 4 and 6 million Euros to get Onley to break his contract, so what are we looking at for Seixas? 10 million?

@7-9 for multiple year deal, Onley's bank haul was part of contract pay out. Same thing with Quickstep, everyone is acting like people are trying to steal riders, in reality, fewer teams have solid multi year commitments and for sure are happy to be free of heavy financial responsibility. I hope Paul Seixas has a good agent and he can get a commitment with a bonus.

 

[Rob5091]

This is going to be a real headache for Decathlon as this is going to run and run all Spring and Lord knows what will happen if he goes to the Tour and does well (one very happy agent at least I guess)
https://velo.outsideonline.com/news/cyclings-next-superstar-is-already-sparking-a-transfer-frenzy/

 

[Gratemans]

He put a hold on contract talks with Decathlon until after the classics..

 

[Red Rick]

Find your sponsors, tell them you need to sign him on a long term deal for 5M a year yesterday.

If Seixas still won't negotiate, bench him for the remainder of his contract.