Paul Seixas: France's Tour Hope Arrives at 19
At 19, Seixas becomes the Tour's youngest rider in 89 years, carrying a nation's 40-year dream of a homegrown champion.
Paul Seixas arrives at the Tour de France this week as the youngest rider in 89 years. The 19-year-old French prospect will line up in Barcelona carrying not just his own ambitions but the weight of a nation that hasn't seen a homegrown male champion since Bernard Hinault in 1985. Seixas's rise has been meteoric.
Racing for Decathlon-CMA CGM, the teenager has captured the French imagination with a brilliance that feels almost generational. He is, by every measure, a prodigy. But prodigies arrive at the Tour every year.
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