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The Guardian - UK
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Jeremy Whittle in Barcelona

Boy who would be king: Seixas carries weight of a nation at Tour de France

Paul Seixas and his Decathlon CMA CGM team on a training ride in Barcelona
Paul Seixas (centre) and his Decathlon CMA CGM team on a training ride in Barcelona before Saturday’s Grand Départ. ‘It is more about questions than fears,’ the 19-year-old Frenchman said of his Tour de France debut. Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images

Paul Seixas may be the youngest Tour de France debutant since 1937, but he is not lacking in confidence. Reminded of the scale of the challenge facing him, in hoping to usurp the dominant four-time champion, Tadej Pogacar, he said calmly: “There are different ways to win a cycling race.”

Seixas fever is running high in Barcelona on the eve of the Tour, even if the 19-year-old says that he “won’t take risks for anything other than the general classification.”

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