Paul Seixas: Tour de France Winner 2031

[Eddy Evenepoel]

We don't have cobbles specialists anymore! Seixas will be the new Merckx, mark my words!

Last year Brennan was looking amazing in Roubaix, and so far this spring Hagenes has been very impressive. Segaert is looking promising as well. Someone will always step up.

 

[canina82]

Crikey - that’s some hyperbole. Who knows who will be coming through in 3 or 4 years who are not already on the radar. Sexias looks the strong bet to be the next dominant and pre eminent stage racer and hilly classics rider of his generation (when he takes the mantle from Pog or Vigne who knows) but development is not linear and not sure how you can extrapolate he will be the dominant force in RVV in 5 years from his performance here.

The way he rides on descents, his performance in Kigali and specially the downfall of this current generation. MVP is an all time great, riders like him don't born every year/generation.
In 2 years, Seixas will be a top contender in Ronde.

 

[canina82]

Last year Brennan was looking amazing in Roubaix, and so far this spring Hagenes has been very impressive. Segaert is looking promising as well. Someone will always step up.

They are nowhere near the level of Wout, let alone Pogacar and MVP. But it's just a prediction, I can be wrong and it's also fair to see people disagreeing with me. Seixas never showed anything in RVV (despite his good performance in Kigali).

 

[Brullnux]

What is even more ridiculous is Pogacar still has aliens like MVP, Remco and Vingegaard in his generation. In 3-4 years, who is gonna beat Seixas in RVV? Remco can’t ride cobbles, MVP, Pedersen, Wout will be gone, Pogacar will eventually regress. We don't have cobbles specialists anymore! Seixas will be the new Merckx, mark my words!

It's funny that we have already forgotten about three discipline guy who came third at Paris-Tours last season, 2nd in Tre Valle Varesine, and beat Carapaz up San Luca, all at 19.

 

[Berniece]

They are nowhere near the level of Wout, let alone Pogacar and MVP. But it's just a prediction, I can be wrong and it's also fair to see people disagreeing with me. Seixas never showed anything in RVV (despite his good performance in Kigali).

Maybe give them some time... Brennan is 20 years old. Crazy to already write him off. He got ill this season

 

[Brullnux]

There is also the fact that with juniors training like pros, and pros being so young, the standard age progression is very hard to predict. Seixas has taken two massive steps from 2024 to 2025, and then again into 2026, but it's hard to know at what point the steps get smaller or stop. Of course, he might do another in 2027, or he this might be very close to the best he gets – who knows.

Or, it might be like Pogacar where the biggest jumps come a few years apart (at least in Tadej's career, 2021 and 2022 were very similar, and 2023 was impacted by wrist injury but the huge step up was 2024).

 

[the asian]

The monuments courses , specially RVV, Liege and Lombardia need to be made much easier, so that a lot of riders are in contention. Otherwise we'll have the same riders dominating the monuments time and again.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

They are nowhere near the level of Wout, let alone Pogacar and MVP. But it's just a prediction, I can be wrong and it's also fair to see people disagreeing with me. Seixas never showed anything in RVV (despite his good performance in Kigali).

And where was Wout on the road when he was 22?

 

[canina82]

And where was Wout on the road when he was 22?

I don't see Brennan and Albert improving that much.

 

[Brullnux]

I don't see Brennan and Albert improving that much.

Right, so we are just in guesswork territory...

 

[ice&fire]

What is even more ridiculous is Pogacar still has aliens like MVP, Remco and Vingegaard in his generation. In 3-4 years, who is gonna beat Seixas in RVV? Remco can’t ride cobbles, MVP, Pedersen, Wout will be gone, Pogacar will eventually regress. We don't have cobbles specialists anymore! Seixas will be the new Merckx, mark my words!

We still have cobbles specialists as we still have pure climbers. They're just beaten at their speciality by the aliens.

 

[canina82]

We still have cobbles specialists as we still have pure climbers. They're just beaten at their speciality by the aliens.

That's my point. We will not have aliens as cobbles specialists anymore.

 

[the asian]

Cobbled specialists take time to develop. There are a number of promising riders born in 2006 and 2007 such as Withen Philipsen, Hector Alvarez, Michiel Mouris (u 18 ITT Worlds Champ and PR Junior winner), Ashlin Barry ) who look like could be very good on Cobbles. Wihten Philipsen is a very good climber too and can do well in the hilly classcis as well.

You cannot judge the 2005,2006,2007 born riders right now. judge them in another 4-5 years.

 

[veganrob]

I think people need to just calm down. He appears to be an incredible talent but he hasn't done anything yet. In a GT he cannot have a bad day for three weeks. That's a lot of racing. Lots of bad things can happen. Crashes he has to get off the deck and get back in the race.
Let's give him a chance to mature just a little more.

 

[Rob5091]

Let's give him a chance to mature just a little more.

Party pooper!
Tickets still available for the bandwagon and don't forget the merch!

 

[BigCoward]

Vingegaard also looks stellar this year. But its absolutely safe to say he is clearly better than Roglic, Evenepoel, Ayuso or who else is a 2nd tier GT rider. Seems like we have an unbeatable 3 now.

What's his best finish in a 3 week stage race?

 

[Berniece]

In this case, Pog might just be confused, as he probably didn’t even know Brennan was in the race, let alone that he was a rival.

Yeah he wasn't, since he was sick

 

[Red Rick]

When is the last time a great young rider did great in shorter stage races and then collapsed in his first GT?

I remember when people were talking about Pogacar and Ayuso leaving the Vuelta after 2 weeks becuase it would be too much for a youngster.

This Itzulia alone will be enough to anoint Seixas the 3rd best GT rider.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

When is the last time a great young rider did great in shorter stage races and then collapsed in his first GT?

I remember when people were talking about Pogacar and Ayuso leaving the Vuelta after 2 weeks becuase it would be too much for a youngster.

This Itzulia alone will be enough to anoint Seixas the 3rd best GT rider.

Remco but he had an excuse

 

[Red Rick]

Remco but he had an excuse

Evenepoel didn't do anything like this in WT stage races on long climbs.

 

[Berniece]

Evenepoel didn't do anything like this in WT stage races on long climbs.

Because he barely rode WT before his first GT

 

[Extinction]

Of course we have to wait and see, but honestly his engine is clearly so big that it would be remarkable if he didn't have the longue durée capacity to handle three weeks.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

But this is not in relation to what's going on right now (the last two years I'd have agreed), for which though, unfortunately, we have no direct comparisons. The Jonas of PN and Catalunya or the Paul thus far in Itzulia I think would at least be a contest for Pog, in other words. And let's hope so for the sport.

Pogacar hasn't lost a one week race for 5 (!) years. Then again, they have lower priority for him (compared to GT and monuments). I would favour Pogacar over Vingo and Seixas but it doesnt matter as they wont meet in any one weeker this year. Lets wait till the Tour.

 

[Jan the Man]

The way he rides on descents, his performance in Kigali and specially the downfall of this current generation. MVP is an all time great, riders like him don't born every year/generation.
In 2 years, Seixas will be a top contender in Ronde.

In 2 years time he will probably still be uber focussed on the Tour and prep for it the traditional way, stage races and the hilly classics.

I don’t doubt he’s a special talent but riders like Pog, who race and are competitive on all terrain and all races do not come around often, even he did not ride Ronde until his 4th year as a pro. Remco will still be around in peak shape in 2 years, by then he may well have shifted focus to a more classics orientated schedule.

 

[AlfaLum]

Bad performance from him and his team today. He should have tried to get 6/6.