{"id":1977009,"date":"2026-06-06T17:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1977009"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:59:18","slug":"forget-seixas-matteo-jorgenson-believes-in-the-win-at-the-criterium-du-dauphine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1977009","title":{"rendered":"Forget Seixas, Matteo Jorgenson Believes in the Win at the Criterium du Dauphin\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"
All the hype is about Paul Seixas, the hugely gifted 19 year old who gave Tadej Poga\u010dar a big scare in Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge, but Matteo Jorgenson isn\u2019t intimidated.<\/p>\n
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He\u2019s back, he\u2019s ready, and he wants to win.<\/p>\n
The American, who captured Paris-Nice titles in 2024 and 2025, will line out in the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes on Sunday in what is his first competitive event since breaking his collarbone in the Amstel Gold Race.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s been away from the peloton for seven weeks but still talks up his chances.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am really looking forward to racing again. I think this year I haven\u2019t raced that much, which was by choice,\u201d Jorgenson said in a Visma-Lease a Bike team release.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce I broke my collarbone, more races were removed. I\u2019m really looking forward to getting back and to getting a number back on again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Riders traditionally would have taken a few days of competition to sharpen up but in this age of altitude training, power meters and more, it\u2019s not always necessary.<\/p>\n
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If they know themselves well enough, it\u2019s possible to hit the ground running and go for the biggest result.<\/p>\n
Jorgenson certainly sounds confident that he is in the right shape to take on the prodigious Decathlon CMA CGM leader Seixas, Isaac del Toro and Jo\u00e3o Almeida (UAE Team Emirates), Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), Oscar Onley (Netcompany Ineos) and others.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the last three weeks I have trained really well with my teammates in Sierra Nevada,\u201d he said. \u201cI have felt really supported by the team throughout the whole recovery process. I feel healthy and 100% so I am ready to race.\u201d<\/p>\n
How ready?<\/p>\n
If you take him at his word, he\u2019s exactly where he needs to be.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always want to try to win. It\u2019s been my goal all season to win a race,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the end, I only missed two weeks of training. The injury set me back, but I was able to train really well and feel completely ready now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Van Aert returns after Roubaix success<\/h2>\nWout van Aert outsprinted Tadej Poga\u0107ar in Paris-Roubaix (Photo: Jasper Jacobs \/ Belga Mag via AFP)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Jorgenson is not the only Visma-Lease a Bike rider returning after a long gap in racing. Wout van Aert has been away from road competition ever since he dazzled fans and outsprinted Tadej Poga\u010dar to win Paris-Roubaix.<\/p>\n
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Sure, he did compete in and win the Marly Grav UCI Gravel World Series event on May 10, but road racing is a different matter entirely.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s not a GC contender on a parcours as tough as this, but he will have opportunities in the days ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Wout, it\u2019s his first race back after his win in Paris-Roubaix, which means he is really motivated,\u201d said sports director Maarten Wynants.<\/p>\n
The race begins Sunday with a mountainous stage running to Saint-Ismier. Day two looks less difficult on paper but actually has more altitude meters, almost 3700. It\u2019s punchy towards the end but the finale is mostly downhill, making a regrouping of sorts possible.<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s 28.4km team time trial is followed by two lumpy stages which are very up and down before both having much flatter runs in to the line.<\/p>\n
The Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes then concludes with three summit finishes, at Crest-Voland, Grand Colombier and Plateau de Solaison.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt will be a tough Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, especially with this strong list of participants,\u201d Wynants said. \u201cWe are also present with a strong line-up and as always we will do everything to get the best possible result out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the team on a high after Vingegaards Giro domination, it will seem like everything is possible. Does that extend to beating Seixas on home soil?<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll learn the answer to that in the days ahead.<\/p>\n
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Z8D_0090.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated June 6, 2026 12:15PM All the hype is about Paul Seixas, the hugely gifted 19 year old who gave Tadej Poga\u010dar a big scare in Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge, but Matteo Jorgenson isn\u2019t intimidated. He\u2019s back, he\u2019s ready, and he wants to win. The American, who captured Paris-Nice titles in 2024 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-1977009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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