{"id":11855,"date":"2026-05-05T18:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/11855\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:01:20","slug":"pro-log-paul-seixas-to-ride-the-tour-de-france-crashes-hit-la-vuelta-femenina-ef-reveal-alien-giro-ditalia-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/11855\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Log: Paul Seixas to ride the Tour de France; Crashes hit La Vuelta Femenina; EF reveal alien Giro d\u2019Italia kit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to another edition of\u00a0Pro Log<\/a>. Here\u2019s a rundown of the latest results before we get started:<\/p>\n

La Vuelta Femenina, Stage 3, Tues 5th May:\u00a01st C\u00e9drine Kerbaol, EF Education-EasyPost, 3h 14min 17sec; 2nd Lotte Kopecky, SD Worx-Protime, +04sec; 3rd Sarah van Damn, Visma-Lease a Bike +04sec.<\/p>\n

La Vuelta Femenina, Stage 2, Mon 4th May:\u00a01st Shari Bossuyt, AG Insurance Soudal, 2h 55min 50sec; 2nd Franziska Koch, FDJ United-Suez, +00sec; 3rd \u00c9vita\u00a0Muzic, FDJ United-Suez, +00sec.<\/p>\n

La Vuelta Femenina, Stage 1, Sun 3rd May:\u00a01st Noemi R\u00fcegg, EF Education-Oatly, 2h 53min 50sec; 2nd Lotte Kopecky, SD Worx-Protime, +00sec; 3rd Franziska Koch, FDJ United-Suez, +00sec.<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s Tour de Romandie, Overall, Sun 3rd May:\u00a01st Tadej Poga\u010dar, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 20h 05min 42sec; 2nd Florian Lipowitz, Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, +42sec; 3rd Lenny Martinez, Bahrain Victorious, +2min 44sec.<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s Tour de Romandie, Stage 5, Sun 3rd May:\u00a01st Tadej Poga\u010dar, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 4h 18min 52sec; 2nd Florian Lipowitz, Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, +03sec; 3rd Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d, Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, +07sec.<\/p>\n

Paul Seixas to make Tour de France debut<\/p>\n

\"\" Luc Claessen\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

It is official, Paul Seixas<\/a> is set to make his Tour de France<\/a> debut this summer, with the 19-year-old Frenchman set to become the youngest rider on the start line for almost 90 years. The news was revealed by Decathlon CMA CGM in a heartwarming video in which Seixas breaks the news to his grandparents who are understandably delighted.<\/p>\n

Seixas has been thriving this season with seven victories so far, including La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne, and raced to second behind Tadej Poga\u010dar at Strade Bianche and Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge. In his two stage races so far, Seixas finished second at the Volta ao Algarve before dominating Itzulia Basque Country.<\/p>\n

Next on his calendar is the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes (previously called the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9) in June before the Tour kicks off in Barcelona in July.<\/p>\n

La Vuelta Femenina kicks off<\/p>\n

\"\"Unipublic\/Cxcling\/Naike Ere\u00f1ozaga<\/p>\n

It has been a crash-marred couple of opening days at the first Grand Tour of the season, La Vuelta Femenina<\/a>. Marianne Vos broke her collarbone but still fought back to sprint at the end of Stage 1, which was won by EF\u2019s Noemi R\u00fcegg, who powered away on the uphill finish to take the first maillot rojo of the race. R\u00fcegg would unfortunately have to abandon herself on Stage 2 after a heavy crash in which she fractured her right shoulder. <\/p>\n

The second stage was won by AG Insurance-Soudal\u2019s Shari Bossuyt in another uphill sprint from a reduced peloton, and saw Lotte Kopecky relegated to 36th place, fined and hit with a yellow card for swerving in the sprint.<\/p>\n

Kopecky said after the race, \u2018I wanted to shift gears. With the SRAM system, if you press both buttons at the same time, you shift to the small chainring. At the moment I wanted to shift up, I came into contact with Shari, that caused me to shift to the inner smaller chainring and drop the chain. After watching the video I really want to say Shari Bossuyt did not do anything wrong. So absolutely congrats to her! I don\u2019t agree with the decision of the jury. But that\u2019s another discussion all together.\u2019<\/p>\n

It’s been a rollercoaster ride so far for EF Education-Oatly, but on Stage 3 the highs returned with a late breakaway win for C\u00e9drine Kerbaol, perfectly set up by teammate Alice Towers. <\/p>\n

EF Education-EasyPost reveal alien Giro d\u2019Italia kit<\/p>\n

\"\"ASSOS<\/p>\n

The latest EF Education-EasyPost<\/a> switchout kit by Assos for the Giro d\u2019Italia<\/a> comes in peace, do not be alarmed. Described as a design that \u2018hovers somewhere between space, time, and the Italian roads\u2019, it showcases a light green colouring with crop circles, a giant alien head on the chest and pink crop circles. Load and brash, much like the duck-themed Rapha x Palace kit at the 2020 edition.<\/p>\n

The squad has to change their pink threads for the Grand Tour as it clashes with the leader\u2019s maglia rosa, much like Visma-Lease a Bike and the maillot jaune at the Tour.<\/p>\n

Tadej Poga\u010dar wins Tour de Romandie<\/p>\n

\"\" Dario Belingheri\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a> dominated the Tour de Romandie, winning four out of six stages, the overall and the points classification. The only days not swept up by the Slovenian were the prologue and the Stage 3 sprint, both won by Ineos’s breakthrough signing Dorian Godon. Poga\u010dar finished sixth and fourth on those stages.<\/p>\n

Last year’s Tour de France third place Florian Lipowitz was Poga\u010dar’s closest challenger on GC, finishing 42 seconds down, while Bahrain Victorious Frenchman Lenny Martinez came home third, 2min 44sec down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome back to another edition of\u00a0Pro Log. Here\u2019s a rundown of the latest results before we get started:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4229,5,6716,2538,8999,2827,1696,2828,9000,4565],"class_list":{"0":"post-11855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-decathlon-cma-cgm","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-giro-ditalia","11":"tag-paul-seixas","12":"tag-pro-log","13":"tag-tadej-pogacar","14":"tag-tour-de-france","15":"tag-uae-team-emirates-xrg","16":"tag-vuelta-a-espana","17":"tag-womens-cycling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}