Paul Seixas\u2019 hope for a big confidence boost prior to his first Tour de France faltered on Saturday when he crashed heavily, and completely disappeared Sunday when he pulled out of the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes.<\/p>\n
Seixas had been in a determined mood on Saturday evening, saying that he would continue if at all possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019m going to take the start again tomorrow,\u201d he said then. \u201cWe\u2019ll see tonight but in any case, I\u2019m going to fight to the end for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n
However he got into trouble early on during Sunday\u2019s eighth stage, being dropped on the opening climb of the Col du Pr\u00e9. He lost contacted with the bunch with almost 20km covered and then climbed into his team car about 14km later.<\/p>\n
Both his arms were heavily bandaged, with pain in those limbs and in his hands referenced on Saturday when he spoke about his injuries.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really banged up, and what saved me today might have been the gloves because the gloves are wrecked,\u201d he explained after stage 7. \u201cI always wear gloves because today proves that if you fall on your hands at 70 kilometers an hour, your hands take a beating. My hands are still pretty messed up.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter that, I couldn\u2019t put my hands on the handlebars. I really struggled because it immediately strained my back. When you can\u2019t put force on the handlebars, it\u2019s actually really complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n
That complication clearly continued on Sunday, with his hopes to advance from sixth overall, 1:54 off yellow disappearing well before the finish of the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe aches and pains came back quickly,\u201d said Decathon CMA CGM DS Julien Jurdie. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t an easy start. He told us over the radio that he wasn\u2019t feeling very well, that he was in pain. As a precaution, we told him to stop. It\u2019s the safer option with July coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n
While he is just 19 years of age, Seixas is due to start his first Tour de France in three weeks\u2019 time. It remains to be seen if this crash and resulting withdrawal will affect those plans.<\/p>\n
However Jurdie doesn\u2019t believes there will be a problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019ll take a few days\u2019 rest and he\u2019ll be back on form in no time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2281523902.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated June 14, 2026 11:05PM Paul Seixas\u2019 hope for a big confidence boost prior to his first Tour de France faltered on Saturday when he crashed heavily, and completely disappeared Sunday when he pulled out of the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes. Seixas had been in a determined mood on Saturday evening, saying […]<\/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-1992093","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\/1992093","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=1992093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1992093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1992093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1992093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}