It\u2019s official: Paul Seixas will make his Grand Tour debut on home soil this July. At least, that\u2019s what the 19-year-old Frenchman told his proud grandparents in a sentimental video posted on Decathlon CMA CGM\u2019s social media channels on the eve of the Giro d\u2019Italia.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a prospect that has the whole of France salivating, but what if you\u2019re Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme? What would be the perfect outcome? The obvious answer is a victory for the Tour\u2019s youngest rider in almost 90 years \u2013 a victory that would end 40 years of hurt<\/a> for the host nation. But it\u2019s not as simple as that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s official: Paul Seixas will make his Grand Tour debut on home soil this July. At least, that\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,112065,101,6549,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-640472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-paul-seixas","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}