{"id":550219,"date":"2026-03-19T09:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/550219\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:02:14","slug":"bernard-hinault-cautious-about-paul-seixas-debut-at-the-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/550219\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Hinault cautious about Paul Seixas&#8217; debut at the Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/paul-seixas\" title=\"Paul Seixas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Seixas<\/a> and the possibility of his participation at the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-de-france\" title=\"Tour de France\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France<\/a> are the hot talk at the moment. The 19-year-old rising star of French cycling made great strides at the start of this season. So great, that his team bosses at Decathlon CMA CGM can&#8217;t hide that the odds of Seixas&#8217; Grande Boucle debut have increased notably over the past weeks.<a href=\"https:\/\/rmcsport.bfmtv.com\/cyclisme\/tour-de-france\/je-pense-qu-il-vaut-mieux-reflechir-hinault-prefere-que-seixas-attende-avant-de-se-lancer-dans-le-tour-de-france-face-a-pogacar_AV-202603170722.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RMC Sport<\/a> have asked Le Blaireau himself to give his thoughts on Seixas at the Tour. The five-time Tour de France winner acknowledges that Paul Seixas &#8220;is a very good rider&#8221;, but that it is not necessary to throw him in the deep end too soon. Rather, he&#8217;d prefer to see Seixas test himself in the three-week racing at either the Giro or Vuelta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Seixas and the possibility of his participation at the 2026 Tour de France are the hot talk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,208288,784,176987,176605,85,2845],"class_list":["post-550219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bernard-hinault","tag-cycling","tag-decathlon-cma-cgm-team","tag-paul-seixas","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}