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  "description": "He won't, but he'll learn more by trying. ",
  "path": "/a-way-too-early-tactical-analysis-of-how-paul-seixas-should-approach-the-tour-de-france/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-04T20:44:12.000Z",
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    "Paul Seixas is heading to the Tour de FranceThe 19-year-old Frenchman will make his Grand Tour debut in July.Escape CollectiveDane Cash",
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  "textContent": "Gruber Images\n\nThe house in Haute-Savoie is quiet. Trophies on every flat surface, the accumulated evidence of a career that has barely started, and Paul Seixas is sitting at the family table telling his grandparents something they have been waiting to hear. His grandmother Suzanne guesses before he finishes the sentence. It's official? she asks. His grandfather José Manuel, 85 years old, has put down the shapely head of lettuce he used to illustrate a prior point about Seixas' extraordinary junior results; he says he is the happiest man in the world.\n\nThe two of them used to watch the Tour de France together when Paul was small. In July, the Tour will watch Paul.\n\nPaul Seixas is heading to the Tour de FranceThe 19-year-old Frenchman will make his Grand Tour debut in July.Escape CollectiveDane Cash\n\nThe video dropped Monday morning, timed to run all week while the Giro occupies everyone else. It will have been seen by a few million people before the weekend. By the time Seixas rolls to the start line in Barcelona on the fifth of July, the youngest rider in the race's field in 89 years, there will be cameras everywhere he looks. Every journalist in France will want five minutes. Every pundit will have an opinion. The whole nation will be watching, waiting, hoping. The weight of all that hope is not a small thing to carry across 21 stages and 3,500 kilometres of scorching French tarmac.\n\nHe doesn't look worried. He probably should be, a little. But the evidence of this spring suggests that Paul Seixas is not someone who wastes energy on things he cannot control.\n\nHere is what he can control: how he races. And the answer to that question, the actual tactical prescription for the Tour de France, is simpler and more aggressive than most of the commentary building around him is going to suggest.\n\nGo and try to win it. Everything else can wait. Everything else will come.\n\nTo understand why this is the right argument, and not just the exciting one, it helps to know where the conversation was a year ago, six months ago, even a month ago.\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Paul Seixas should try to win the Tour de France",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-04T23:34:24.009Z"
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