{"id":590006,"date":"2026-04-06T22:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590006\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:43:11","slug":"seixas-makes-a-statement-in-the-basque-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590006\/","title":{"rendered":"Seixas makes a statement in the Basque Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 19-year-old phenom’s rise continues to chug along after he demolished the competition in the opening time trial.<\/p>\n

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With some hilly stages on tap in the week to come, the Itzulia Basque Country was always going to be a great opportunity for Paul Seixas (Decathlon-CMA CGM) to secure his first ever WorldTour win. With some stiff competition in the opening time trial, however, stage 1 seemed like a challenging one for the 19-year-old Frenchman.<\/p>\n

Seixas did not get the memo. All aboard the hype train<\/a>!<\/p>\n

In a 13.8 km test that featured an early Cat. 3 climb and an uphill run to the line, Seixas crushed the competition, which included TT talents like the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe duo of Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d and Florian Lipowitz, the UAE Team Emirates-XRG pairing of Brandon McNulty and Isaac del Toro, and Lidl-Trek’s Juan Ayuso. With a time of 17:09, Seixas was comfortably 23 seconds ahead of the day’s runner-up K\u00e9vin Vauquelin (Ineos Grenadiers) \u2013\u00a0more than 1 km\/h faster than second place \u2013\u00a0and now enjoys a substantial advantage in the overall standings.<\/p>\n

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