{"id":928126,"date":"2026-10-10T19:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T19:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/928126\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T19:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T19:34:13","slug":"seixas-becomes-youngest-winner-of-tour-of-lombardy-at-20-and-cyclists-protest-over-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/928126\/","title":{"rendered":"Seixas becomes youngest winner of Tour of Lombardy at 20 and cyclists protest over safety concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

ROME (AP) \u2014 France\u2019s rising cycling talent Paul Seixas<\/a> made history at the Tour de Lombardy when he became its youngest winner ever on Saturday after riders protested safety concerns.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old Seixas broke away with around 20 kilometers left to win the one-day race in northern Italy that had been dominated by the currently injured Tadej Poga\u010dar for the previous five years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had the feeling today would be a great day. It feels like a dream,\u201d Seixas said.<\/p>\n

He savored the winning feeling after racing for nearly six hours.<\/p>\n

Spanish Vuelta winner Enric Mas<\/a> was second at 48 seconds behind, followed by Italian Giulio Ciccone.<\/p>\n

\"SeixasFrance\u2019s Paul Seixas celebrates with the trophy after winning Il Lombardia, Tour of Lombardy cycling race, in Como, Italy, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. (Gian Mattia D\u2019Alberto\/LaPresse via AP)<\/p>\n

The Tour of Lombardy started in 1905. It is one of cycling\u2019s elite one-day Monument races.<\/p>\n

Seixas finished this summer\u2019s Tour de France fourth overall in his debut.<\/p>\n

Also this season, Seixas became the youngest winner of the Fl\u00e8che Wallonne at 19 and finished runner-up to Poga\u010dar, a five-time Tour champion, at the Strade Bianche and Liege-Bastogne-Liege.<\/p>\n

Riders protest safety concerns<\/p>\n

The start of the race was delayed for around five minutes when riders didn\u2019t begin as scheduled in a protest to denounce unsafe racing conditions and the recent death of a cyclist.<\/p>\n

\"SeixasFrance\u2019s Paul Seixas celebrates winning Il Lombardia, Tour of Lombardy cycling race, in Como, Italy, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. (Gian Mattia D\u2019Alberto\/LaPresse via AP)<\/p>\n

Star rider Remco Evenepoel<\/a> spoke for the peloton at the start line in Bergamo.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, we lost the life of a brother and of a colleague, so we want to make this statement to show the world that we cannot keep accepting the fact that guys are getting injured or literally dying in what we like the most to do,\u201d Evenepoel said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo this is why we want to spend five minutes more still to make our statement towards organizations, to the public, to everybody that is following cycling, because we cannot accept the fact that people are dying.\u201d<\/p>\n

British rider Finlay Tarling died<\/a> following a serious incident in the Volta a Portugal race in August when the 19-year-old was run over by a car that entered the road. The driver reportedly missed the signs from stewards and entered the road going in the opposite direction of the race.<\/p>\n

\"SeixasFrance\u2019s Paul Seixas pedals on his way to win Il Lombardia, Tour of Lombardy cycling race, in Como, Italy, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. (Gian Mattia D\u2019Alberto\/LaPresse via AP)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP sports: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/sports<\/a><\/p>\n

\"SeixasFrom left, second placed Spain\u2019s Enric Mas Nicolau, the winner France\u2019s Paul Seixas and third placed Italy\u2019s Giulio Ciccone during the podium ceremony for Il Lombardia, Tour of Lombardy cycling race, in Como, Italy, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. (Marco Alpozzi\/LaPresse via AP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROME (AP) \u2014 France\u2019s rising cycling talent Paul Seixas made history at the Tour de Lombardy when he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-928126","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\/928126","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=928126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}