The future squad star and its Tour 2028 plan

He is 18 years old and surprises his own and others in his first year as a professional. The future squad star and its Tour 2028 plan

A great gesture

“The team wanted me to win, but I said: ‘No, Nico deserves it more than me! I know that I am still going to improve, Nico is running incredibly well, but you never know. It gives me a lot of joy to be able to give it to him today!” He commented after the last stage of the Tour of the Alps.

It is strange and very uncommon for a 18 -year -old boy like Paul Seixas who attacks and detaches from the rest of the leak in a mountain port, ends up giving his team partner, Nicolas Prodhomme. But there are plenty of reasons. Seixas is a super talent and, most likely, the best debutant as a professional so far this year, in terms of mountain and potential for generals. Soon he will need Prodhomme help and for much more ambitious objectives than a simple stage. The Tour of The Alps is one of the first great race for Seixas in the platoon and results did not miss with three top 3 in five days. He previously achieved a valuable second place in Paris-Camembert.

Seixas and its steps forward

“I’m super happy,” he told Cyclingnews. “Four out of five times is among the first six of the stage. I am always in the lead, except yesterday. It was a bit difficult for the weather and my experience. I am very young compared to the most veteran runners, so I have a little hard to be in the lead in stages as difficult as that, and eat well, feel good and not have a lot.” “But every day I am here, every day I am strong, every day I fight for victory, so it is a big surprise and I have enjoyed it a lot.” “I want to attack, I am not a pilot who is stuck to the wheels and wait,” he said. “But the team is also here to win something.”

Now the young Frenchman- champion of the junior world of counterreloj and national champion in Ciclocross- will go to his first camp of height and will make the Next Gen turn. While he wants to continue learning in the WorldTour, it is not ruled out that the Decathlon sends him to other imports of importance among the elderly. It is not for less, Seixas himself runs as if he were already a professional for years. Similar to how Matthew Brennan (Visma) was shown in the Volta to Catalonia and in Paris-Roubaix, with only 19 years.

Decathlon’s plan

Because there is a very clear goal for your future: winning big laps and becoming the first Frenchman to do so in more than forty years. Of course the road is long, but the signs are promising. “It is a very interesting cyclist. There is a lot of talk about Paul in the team. Logically, when someone comes directly from the lower categories, it is always a matter of conversation,” he told Het NieuwsbladOliver Naesen, one of his teammates.

“He is a super normal boy. He continues at school, he continues to live with his parents. As it should be for a eighteen -year -old boy. Without airs of greatness, without ostentation. In fact, they took him directly from school. His environment does not allow him to think crazy things about himself,” he said.

And he revealed that Decathlon’s plan is quite ambitious. “There is a plan between the team to win the tour in 2028 and everything revolves around Paul. Our executive director and Paul also expressed it. He sat there as if he were at school. He listened to the director who read the objectives of the year. Everything seems so natural. I also do not feel pressure. It shows on the Alps tour. Compete there for the victories as if it were normal, against boys who prepare for the turn. And that is only eighteen. What madness! He is on his way to building an incredible race, ”said Naesen.

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