{"id":183432,"date":"2025-06-14T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T09:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183432\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T09:41:09","slug":"its-very-tough-megatalent-paul-seixas-holds-his-own-against-worlds-best-gc-riders-in-combloux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183432\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s very tough&#8221; &#8211; Megatalent Paul Seixas holds his own against world&#8217;s best GC riders in Combloux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/criterium-du-dauphine\" title=\"Criterium du Dauphin\u00e9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Criterium du Dauphin\u00e9<\/a> stage 6 was a day where we&#8217;ve learnt a lot about the current distribution of power among the Tour de France favourites, but it was also a great day for French cycling fans. A home rider didn&#8217;t win on Friday, but when was the last time there were three men from France in a top-10 of a mountain stage? And among them perhaps the greatest climbing talent &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/paul-seixas\" title=\"Paul Seixas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Seixas<\/a> &#8211; is on his way to a first WorldTour GC top-10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honestly, I had a great feeling,&#8221; Seixas reacted immediately, obviously satisfied with his performance on the ascent to Combloux. &#8220;The team did a great job, we were well positioned all day. I was able to hang onto the right group on  the C\u00f4te de Mont-Saxonnex and save a bit of energy for the end. And on the last climb, it was all about pedaling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The team of Tadej Pogacar wasted no time on Cote de Domancy and immediately shattered the group of favourites on the steep section. &#8220;UAE got going, they climbed so fast&#8230;,&#8221; Seixas reflects.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t panic and rode with his brain as well as his legs towards the finish line where he arrived only 14 seconds after Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel. &#8220;I climbed a bit at my own pace. I started off a bit too fast in Domancy, but after that I managed it well I think. I held on mentally until the finish. It was steep, which suited me quite well. And the stage was short, which was good for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This brings the 18-year-old Seixas to an eighth place overall with just two days to go. &#8220;I hope that tomorrow (Saturday) will go as well as today. It will be different, I&#8217;ll hang on like today and we&#8217;ll see what happens. What am I learning from being with the best? That it&#8217;s very tough, and that the level is extremely consistent. That&#8217;s all. I&#8217;m discovering the level of the best, it&#8217;s nice,&#8221; concluded Paul Seixas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Criterium du Dauphin\u00e9 stage 6 was a day where we&#8217;ve learnt a lot about the current distribution of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-183432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114681065207208886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}