2026 Races....Spoilers.

[Dogtrousers]

Scheldeprijs men and women today. Sprintastic. Phillipsen, Merlier, Groenewegen but no Milan (except for the Fretin one) in the men. Kool, Consonni, Balsamo but no Wiebes in the women.

 

[Domus]

Has he got a strong enough team together him through a grand tour?

 

[Domus]

To get him through.

 

[TakeTheHighRoad]

Has he got a strong enough team together him through a grand tour?

I think he has, and Decathlon are building a team as well. A year's experience at targeting GC with no expectations will do them good too, I think

 

[No Ta Doctor]

I think he should ride the Tour, but with (privately) no expectations for GC. Then at least it gets some of the hype out of the way and there's no disappointment if (and probably when) he doesn't succeed

Try telling that to an ambitious 19 year old though

It's not the ambitious 19 year old that's the problem, it's French media. It wouldn't be such a problem if Decathlon had any other GC rider of note that he could ride in support of so "he's just learning the ropes", but everyone knows he's better than Riccitiello and Gall etc.

I think they were intending to take a sprint based team with Olav Kooij this year (signed this season) but he's had a virus and hasn't raced yet. I suppose they could take a sprint team plus Seixas with no support ("just try and stay in contact as long as you can") but as soon as he needed help and there wasn't any there the team would be savaged.

The moment he starts the Tour - whichever year- the pressure will be immense. Better to let him ride his first GT outside France

This is a cartoon in L'Equipe today "How far can Seixas go?"

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Landa has abandoned the Basque Country, which is hardly surprising.
More surprising is that Isaac del Toro has also left the race.
Ah, he was involved in a nasty crash with Ben Tullet amongst others.

 

[mididoctors]

Basque stage 3

 

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52 k. 1 : 41

 

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Rampy finish

 

[Dorset Boy]

I think I saw that Landa was taken out by the doctor's car and the driver has been thrown off the race.

 

[mididoctors]

I think I saw that Landa was taken out by the doctor's car and the driver has been thrown off the race.

We saw landa on his back yesterday

 

[wakemalcolm]

That's the gap to the peloton moving out again. Have Decathlon knocked off for the day?

 

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On the climb

 

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Lulu taking it up

 

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