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Alasdair Fotheringham

'He's already between Remco and Pogačar at the same age' - France's most recent Il Lombardia winner Thibaut Pinot pays tribute to rising local star Paul Seixas

Il Lombardia 2018: winner Thibaut Pinot prepares to drop defending champion Vincenzo Nibali.

Six days after Paul Seixas turned in a stunning ride into a bronze medal in the Road European Championships, the 19-year-old Frenchman is set to make his debut in Il Lombardia.

The odds of Seixas outpowering either top favourites Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) or Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep - the riders who beat him last weekend in the Drôme-Ardèche in the European Championships - during Saturday's lengthy trek through the hills of northern Italy are logically remote. But for one former French winner of the Race of the Falling Leaves, at least, Seixas is already riding as brilliantly as Remco and Pogačar were at the same point in their respective careers.

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