{"id":205243,"date":"2026-04-29T13:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=205243"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:06:30","slug":"pogacar-and-seixas-dominate-spring-season-talk-while-van-aert-simply-thrills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2026\/04\/29\/pogacar-and-seixas-dominate-spring-season-talk-while-van-aert-simply-thrills\/","title":{"rendered":"Poga\u010dar and Seixas Dominated Spring Season Talk, While van Aert Simply Thrilled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Two riders dominated the men\u2019s spring season, and neither one was named Remco Evenepoel or Jonas Vingegaard. One was, of course, Tadej Poga\u010dar (UAE Team Emirates\u2013XRG), who is the focus of cycling conversations after every season, usually in sentences that begin or end with the word Wow!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The other \u2018wow\u2019 rider<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That word is increasingly being used in connection with the other spring talking point, 19-year-old French phenom Paul Seixas, who is now regarded as the Second Coming of Pogi to the point that UAE Team Emirates\u2013XRG will be trying to acquire his services once his contract with Decathlon CMA CGM ends in 2027.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Already seen as the first French rider to win the Tour since 1985, the teenager officially became a French national icon this spring after, according to Eurosport Spain, French President Emmanuel Macron \u201coffered his full support to the Decathlon team for the contract renewal and also spoke directly with the manager of the Lyon-born rider, who in turn is demanding a strong team around him.\u201d In other words, he wants to keep Seixas French.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And Decathlon, eager to please the French president and Seixas, has started trying to meet the teenager\u2019s demand. Again according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurosport.es\/ciclismo\/informacion-eurosport-paul-seixas-cuestion-de-estado-emmanuel-macron-renovacion-decathlon-nuevo-salario-fichajes-operacion-mbappe-psg-real-madrid-tour-de-francia-vuelta-a-espana_sto23288950\/story.shtml\">Eurosport Spain,<\/a> they are close to signing one of Poga\u010dar\u2019s most valued domestiques, Pavel Sivakov, who is also French.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You see what I mean? Poga\u010dar is still the best rider in the world and had a great spring, winning four of the five classics in which he rode, but we are talking about Seixas, who the Slovenian beat twice this spring, in the Strade Bianche and then in last Sunday\u2019s Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge. In both races Poga\u010dar\u2019s winning margin over Seixas was similar, 1:00 in Strade Bianche and 45 seconds in Li\u00e8ge. But in the latter race, Seixas managed to stay on the world champion\u2019s wheel for about 20km when he attacked, before succumbing to his infernal pace on the final categorized climb. That was big news.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At a post-race interview, as reported by France 24, Poga\u010dar also spoke about his new rival. &#8220;Having Paul entering such a big field at such a good level already at 19, it brings motivation to everybody else now to keep trying to improve,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Because, again, he&#8217;s 19 now and normally your body physically is the best at 26 to 30 years old. So we&#8217;ll see. We keep working hard to still try to fight for the next years to win as much as we can until he destroys everybody&#8230; It&#8217;s just a matter of time when we lose to him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not yet clear if Seixas will ride in this year\u2019s Tour de France. He has no experience of a three-week race and there\u2019s a definite risk in having him start with the hardest one. Asked after Li\u00e8ge about his ambitions, he said, &#8220;Now that I&#8217;ve finished second, my next ambition is to win a Monument. There are no certainties in life when it comes to the future: you&#8217;ve only achieved something once you&#8217;ve done it.&#8221; Does that sound like a teenager?<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Pogi is still top dog<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for Poga\u010dar, he came into this spring in what appears to be the best form of his life and was defeated only by a super-motivated Wout van Aert (Visma\u2013Lease a Bike) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2026\/04\/13\/van-aert-outsprints-pogacar-to-win-the-2026-paris-roubaix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a Paris-Roubaix<\/a> in which he had to change bikes three times and spent too much time riding on a service car bike because his team car was too far away. Other than that, he was nearly untouchable.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_205104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205104\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2026\/04\/Wout-van-Aert-Paris-Roubaix-profimedia-1090583673-CVR.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-205104 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2026\/04\/Wout-van-Aert-Paris-Roubaix-profimedia-1090583673-CVR.webp\" alt=\"Paris-Roubaix\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2026\/04\/Wout-van-Aert-Paris-Roubaix-profimedia-1090583673-CVR.webp 990w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2026\/04\/Wout-van-Aert-Paris-Roubaix-profimedia-1090583673-CVR-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2026\/04\/Wout-van-Aert-Paris-Roubaix-profimedia-1090583673-CVR-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2026\/04\/Wout-van-Aert-Paris-Roubaix-profimedia-1090583673-CVR-400x267.webp 400w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2026\/04\/Wout-van-Aert-Paris-Roubaix-profimedia-1090583673-CVR-272x182.webp 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-205104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Aert dominated the 2026 Paris-Roubaix. \u00a9 Profimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I say \u2018nearly\u2019 because he was definitely touched in Milan\u2013San Remo and then proved by winning just what a great rider he is. He crashed about 33km from the finish line, just before the important Cipressa climb. When he got back on his bike, he was 35 seconds behind the peloton just as it was speeding up for the Cipressa ascent. With the help of teammates Florian Vermeersch and Felix Gro\u00dfschartner, he closed the gap in just 6 km, reaching the tail of the peloton just as the climb began. Two more teammates, Brandon McNulty and Isaac del Toro took him to the front of the peloton and led him up the climb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When he attacked, only Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin\u2013Premier Tech) and Tom Pidcock (Pinarello Q36.50) were able to follow. He dropped van der Poel on the Oude Kwaremont climb and outsprinted Pidcock to the line. A remarkable victory, made even more remarkable by the fact that he had won with a damaged bike. His mechanic revealed after the race that the rear triangle (stays) of Poga\u010dar&#8217;s bike was cracked during the impact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to the frame damage, the impact triggered the bike&#8217;s electronic shifting &#8220;crash mode&#8221; and caused the disc brake to rub against the braking surface. Poga\u010dar managed to manually reset the derailleur while riding and ignored the mechanical drag to catch the peloton. And then he broke his own record for climbing the Cipressa in 8:48. In a word: Wow!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Wout thrills, Remco baffles, Mathieu rides hurt<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While there were several thrilling races this spring, van Aert\u2019s Paris-Roubaix victory may have been the best because it was Wout being Wout again after a long dry spell and because the \u201cHell of the North\u201d was incredibly hellish, its unforgiving cobbles causing more mechanical issues than a demolition derby. For example, van der Poel had a puncture with 93km left to race that set him back 2 minutes. That he finished only 15 seconds adrift, in fourth place, tells you everything about his strength and determination. But this was van Aert\u2019s day, and a stone must have fallen from his heart when he sprinted past Poga\u010dar on the indoor track of the V\u00e9lodrome Andr\u00e9-P\u00e9trieux and crossed the line, as cycling fans all over the world rejoiced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for Evenepoel (Red Bull\u2013BORA\u2013hansgrohe), he didn\u2019t have a bad spring at all, but it was mediocre for a superstar. Though he started the season early and well, winning three minor races in Spain before taking the Volta Comunitat Valenciana over Jo\u00e3o Almeida (UAE Team Emirates\u2013XRG), he finished tenth in the UAE Tour and fifth in the Volta a Catalunya, well beaten by Jonas Vingegaard \u2013 though he appeared to be riding in support of teammate Lipowitz, who finished third.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He outsprinted Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) to win the Amstel Gold Race, but finished third in the Tour of Flanders and Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge. That\u2019s very good, of course, but I\u2019m sure he wanted more and we had expected more. I had expected him to contest the finish at these races.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s far too early to call it a disappointing beginning for Evenepoel with his new team, because Red Bull\u2013BORA\u2013hansgrohe has won 14 races and he has won five of them. But something feels off about his performances against the riders he should be challenging for victories, by which I mean Poga\u010dar, Vingegaard, and now also Seixas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Van der Poel also went down in the Milan\u2013San Remo crash that made Poga\u010dar hit the pavement, and he was both the first to get away and the worst hurt. During the crash, another rider\u2019s bike rammed into his hand, causing a &#8220;hole&#8221; in his fingernail and a deep laceration that was still bleeding at the end of the race. He said at the finish he couldn&#8217;t hold the handlebars properly during the final climb of the Poggio due to the pain. He finished eighth, 4 seconds behind Poga\u010dar and was advised not to race for a while and let the hand heal. He didn\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Saxo Classic, he was uncharacteristically caught by a trio of riders after a long breakaway, but outwitted them for the victory. In the Tour of Flanders he couldn\u2019t keep up with Poga\u010dar when he attacked on the Oude Kwaremont, and finished 34 seconds behind the Slovenian. Though most riders would have been happy with the results, someone with van der Poel\u2019s talents and ambition would not have called it a successful spring campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two riders dominated the men\u2019s spring season, and neither one was named Remco Evenepoel or Jonas Vingegaard. 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