{"id":205152,"date":"2025-06-22T12:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T12:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/205152\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T12:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T12:59:10","slug":"he-had-a-great-dauphine-but-we-have-to-see-how-he-fares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/205152\/","title":{"rendered":"He had a great Dauphin\u00e9, but we have to see how he fares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course the rise of Seixas has not escaped attention of the legendary rider himself who commented briefly on his compatriot: &#8220;We shouldn&#8217;t sell the bear&#8217;s skin before we&#8217;ve killed it,&#8221; Hinault sounds careful in his assessment of the up and coming French prospect for <a href=\"https:\/\/rmcsport.bfmtv.com\/cyclisme\/cyclisme-il-ne-faut-pas-vendre-la-peau-de-l-ours-hinault-calme-l-euphorie-autour-du-prodige-seixas_AV-202506180788.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RMC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A week-long race is quite different from a three-week long battle he points out: &#8220;First of all, he needs to manage his physical abilities well.  He had a great Dauphin\u00e9,  but we have to see how he fares. Will he progress and continue to be as good as he is?&#8221; wonders the legendary Le Blaireau.<\/p>\n<p>Seixas made it clear in his statements that it&#8217;s not on his 2025 schedule to debut at Tour de France nor any other Grand Tour, but cycling fans are already projecting the 18-year-old&#8217;s path to breaking the four decades long fasting of French cycling at the Grande Boucle.<\/p>\n<p>But according to Hinault, Seixas shouldn&#8217;t skip any steps on his way to the top. Instead, he reckons it would be wise to get the feeling at &#8220;small Tour&#8221; &#8211; the Tour de l&#8217;Avenir in August. &#8220;He&#8217;ll find himself with riders of his generation, and that would be great,&#8221; Hinault calculates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of course the rise of Seixas has not escaped attention of the legendary rider himself who commented briefly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-205152","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\/114727142379205849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205152","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=205152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}