A promotion to the seniors at Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale, a junior world time trial champion title this Monday, and his 18th birthday tomorrow. That’s a great sequence of events in six days for Frenchman Paul Seixas.
A future great of world Cycling, the French rider beat the two Belgians Jasper Schoofs and Matisse Van Kerckhove in the junior time trial at the World Cycling Championships to secure another prestigious victory this season.
“It’s a surprise, I didn’t really know what I was looking for. Being world champion, I didn’t even dream of it, well maybe a little bit,” he confided on arrival in comments reported by L’Équipe.
A new coronation in the road race on Thursday?
With thirteen wins in 2024, including Liège-Bastogne-Liège juniors, he is destined to compete in stage races in the future, somewhat in the vein of a certain Remco Evenepoel. The Lyonnais is following in his footsteps, having gone straight from juniors to professionals in the World Tour squad, the elite of world cycling, without going through the hopefuls box at Décathlon-AG2R La Mondiale. A big leap that was unthinkable just a few years ago before being made by the Belgian prodigy, a pioneer of increasingly precocious cycling.
Before thinking about that, Paul Seixas still has a great opportunity to show himself among the juniors in the road race of the World Championships, scheduled for this Thursday. He will not start as the favorite against the Dane Albert Whiten Philipsen (Lidl-Trek).
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