{"id":736018,"date":"2026-06-14T10:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T10:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/736018\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T10:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T10:56:12","slug":"we-dont-give-up-paul-seixas-reports-for-duty-on-final-day-of-tour-auvergne-rhone-alpes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/736018\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We don&#8217;t give up&#8217; \u2013 Paul Seixas reports for duty on final day of Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"elk-6e696c3c-9598-48cb-85c7-a8d4b4facb07\">After barely being able to stand at the finish of Saturday&#8217;s extraordinary stage, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/paul-seixas\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/paul-seixas\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/paul-seixas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Seixas<\/a> has reported for the start of the final stage of the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/criterium-du-dauphine\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/criterium-du-dauphine\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/criterium-du-dauphine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/racing\/down-but-not-out-paul-seixas-produces-extraordinary-comeback-from-early-crash-and-long-chase-to-limit-losses-at-tour-auvergne-rhone-alpes\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/racing\/down-but-not-out-paul-seixas-produces-extraordinary-comeback-from-early-crash-and-long-chase-to-limit-losses-at-tour-auvergne-rhone-alpes\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/racing\/down-but-not-out-paul-seixas-produces-extraordinary-comeback-from-early-crash-and-long-chase-to-limit-losses-at-tour-auvergne-rhone-alpes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bloodied act of defiance on Saturday<\/a>, there were fears that Seixas might not see the race through to the end, once the adrenaline wore off and his injuries caught up with him.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-6e696c3c-9598-48cb-85c7-a8d4b4facb07-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">However, those fears were allayed on Sunday morning, and in swashbuckling style.<\/p>\n<p>Latest Videos From<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/gmvwmhupgi1715762145.svg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/gmvwmhupgi1715762145.svg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/gmvwmhupgi1715762145.svg\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] block h-[18px] w-auto shrink-0 brightness-0 invert\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/gmvwmhupgi1715762145.svg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/gmvwmhupgi1715762145.svg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/gmvwmhupgi1715762145.svg\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] max-h-12 w-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t worry,&#8221; Seixas said as he was filmed walking from his hotel to his team bus on Sunday morning. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be at the start.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">Someone then asks Seixas directly if he&#8217;ll be setting off again, to which, climbing onto the bus, he replies: &#8220;Always. We don&#8217;t give up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            You may like<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">Seixas staged a stunning fightback from an early crash on Saturday&#8217;s penultimate stage, somehow plugging a four-minute gap during a furious 60km chase with his teammates, and then fighting to seventh on the summit finish despite barely being able to hold the handlebars.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">Footage at the finish showed Seixas limping to the podium to collective his combativity award, but not before he had to be hauled to his feet by his father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">He said he suffered abrasions to both arms and legs but indicated that his hands took the brunt of the fall as he slid face first onto the tarmac.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">Sunday&#8217;s finale is an explosive brute, measuring just 120km but packing in four major mountain ascents before finishing at the Plateau de Solaison.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">More to follow<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd75 Paul Seixas a re\u00e7u le soutien de sa famille \u00e0 l\u2019arriv\u00e9e.Paul Seixas was welcomed and supported by his family at the finish. \ud83e\udd15#TourAuvergneRhoneAlpes pic.twitter.com\/qswzN61Lbe<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/2065806065887748386\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/2065806065887748386\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After barely being able to stand at the finish of Saturday&#8217;s extraordinary stage, Paul Seixas has reported for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-736018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}