{"id":590854,"date":"2026-04-07T08:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590854\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:26:09","slug":"paul-seixas-credits-preparation-after-impressive-time-trial-victory-we-planned-it-perfectly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590854\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Seixas credits preparation after impressive time trial victory: \u201cWe planned it perfectly\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Seixas<\/a> produced an outstanding ride on Monday to win <\/a>the opening time trial of the Tour of the Basque Country<\/a> in emphatic fashion. Riders such as Juan Ayuso and Isaac del Toro were immediately put under serious pressure, losing 1:16 and 0:50 respectively to the young Frenchman. According to Seixas himself, however, it was not only down to good legs.\u201cWe planned it perfectly,\u201d the 19-year-old said afterwards in the flash interview<\/a> afterwards. \u201cI think I started in the right time slot and kept a good pace.\u201d It was a near-flawless time trial for the Decathlon CMA CGM<\/a> leader. \u201cI had really good legs and we were well prepared. Today all the hard work paid off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Towards the end of the time trial, riders including Ayuso could be seen getting pushed sideways by the wind, something Seixas did not appear to suffer from in the same way. \u201cAt the end the wind was a bit stronger. It was not a huge difference, but in a time trial it\u2019s all about the details,\u201d said the Frenchman, who admitted his team had deliberately thought about that factor in advance.<\/p>\n

Continue reading below the photo!<\/p>\n

\"paul-seixas\"\/Seixas: \u201cIt\u2019s already nice to win here, but with these gaps it\u2019s even more special\u201d<\/p>\n

Even so, the wonderkid did not want to give all the credit to smart planning alone. \u201cIt won\u2019t have made 23 seconds of difference, but it is part of the advantage. Every second counts.\u201d With the win, Seixas also secured the first WorldTour victory of his career, having already taken two .Pro wins earlier this season. Still, his focus was already shifting to the rest of the week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s already nice to win here, but with these gaps it\u2019s even more special. It gives me a lot of confidence for the rest of the week.\u201d Asked whether that now makes him the favourite to win the Tour of the Basque Country overall, Seixas preferred not to go too far. \u201cI\u2019m wearing the leader\u2019s jersey now, so at the moment I\u2019m the favourite to win the race. But of course it was only a time trial. It\u2019s just the beginning, so we have to stay careful.\u201d<\/p>\n

That caution will already be needed on Tuesday, with a demanding mountain stage scheduled immediately in stage 2. \u201cTomorrow is already a very hard stage. I\u2019ll need to stay near the front and race attentively to get through the day well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Seixas produced an outstanding ride on Monday to win the opening time trial of the Tour of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,221838,176605,85,282471],"class_list":{"0":"post-590854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-decathlon-cma-cgm","12":"tag-paul-seixas","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-the-tour-of-the-basque-country"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590854","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=590854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}