With two stage wins and overall victory in the Tour de l’Avenir last season, we already knew that Paul Seixas was packing a punch. However, according to his friend and compatriot Alex Baudin of EF Education-EasyPost who is privy to such things, Seixas enjoyed a phenomenal winter of training that saw him add 20 watts of power per month to his output. No wonder the results have begun to rack up with such apparent ease for the 19-year-old from Lyon this season.
Baudin’s little snippet of insight was passed on by EF Education-EasyPost director sportif Matti Breschel, who was speaking to Danish outlet Feltlet about Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM) and his Tadej Pogačar-bothering ride to second place in Sunday’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
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The Dane also got the impression that Pogačar had been annoyed by the amount of attention being paid to Seixas, he said.
“Everyone had been talking about Seixas in the build-up, and everyone was being asked about him. Not a single rider could walk through the mixed zone without getting a question about Seixas. In a way I think it irritated [Pogačar].”
But it was Seixas’s 20 watts per month gain – according to Beaudin – that was surely the most startling observation.
That certainly is one question – although another of equal gravitas, and one that Seixas, his coaches, and perhaps Pogačar are all asking, is exactly how many more watts the French rider can add to his arsenal. Also, after winning Itzulia Basque Country and La Flèche Wallonne, how much more power does Seixas need?
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