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15-10-2026 04:52
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12-10-2026 02:58
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11-10-2026 00:58
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RidesHills
Could we give Seixas time to be Seixas and not make comparisons too soon? Maybe it’s my age speaking, but he’s a mere 20, barely started. Sure, a phenom, but so young. Will he win 8 Monuments like van der Poel so far, will he win 4 grand tours like Vingegaard? Those have been the two seconds to Pogačar’s first, since covid. Yes, there’s an eventual changing of the guard, but Seixas will need time to build the palmares to make his case. Might we please give him that time (while we enjoy the hell out of his riding)?15-10-2026 04:52
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RidesHills
It is easy to celebrate those who won the grand tours and the monuments and the world championships. What I notice more are the ones who were at the world tour and kept going on the pro tour level for that little bit longer, still wanting to ride after their bodies had aged, after their teams no longer needed them. It is good to see the domestiques. as well. Congratulations to all these folks on an impressive career, no matter the wins. Cycling is a team sport, and it’s the ones we don’t see much of that allow the leaders to stand out and win the accolades.14-10-2026 16:21
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RidesHills
The sport has long had a divide between the more diesel-like riders and the more explosive riders. Where does Pogačar fit? His explosive attacks are followed by a high speed diesel climb and he's rarely been caught in the past 5 years (people can name the moments, it's so rare). Seixas is young and we have no idea where his body will end up on this spectrum (just like we didn't with Pogačar when he was 20 and being a diesel up the Vuelta mountains of 2019). Speculation is fun, being a fan while it unfolds is going to be more fun.13-10-2026 14:25
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RidesHills
And you have a reason for this claim of 3/4? You know this for a fact? Or it is your ego once again making assumptions? As usual, so much ego about this tiny little comments section, so little insight about the actual cycling12-10-2026 03:04
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RidesHills
I disagree with these experts, because the comparison isn't valid yet. Seixas is exciting as hell to watch, but so was Pogačar at this stage in his career. Seixas just finished his second season, and to me, it's not about age, it's about season, so the age of 20 isn't the important thing. All his 8 wins are in this second season, with the Itzulia Basque Country GC plus La Flêche Wallonne and Il Lombardia, and his second places to Pogačar are notable. In comparison, though, Pogačar was set up as a GC rider in his first two seasons, and won the Volta ao Algarve and Amgen California tours in his first year (8 wins), plus the aggressive podium at the Vuelta that announced him as the climber he was, before winning the Volta a la Communitat Valencia and the Tour de France in his second year (another 9 wins). That he has ended up as the dominant monuments winner of his era (better than van der Poel?! my god) was nobody's prediction, but had Alaphilippe's move not disrupted the entire sprint at the delayed Liége race that year, who knows what we might have noticed a little earlier. Point being, their first two seasons on the world tour don't align with each other perfectly, and Pogačar's statistics are better. This should be no surprise. Pogačar has one main rival during classics season, and nobody ever mentions the other, and then the other rival during grand tour season, when everyone forgets the first (van der Poel and Vingegaard, obviously). Will Seixas compete with him equally in both classics and tours, in future years? The cycling fan in me hopes so! Right now, the show is amazing, better when they are on the same circuit, and Seixas is still young. A hand off across the generations will happen someday, to someone. But, I am pretty sure Pogačar would have ended up with the Vuelta, Worlds, and Lombardia had he not crashed at the Vuelta, but he crashed, and such is life, and maybe he returns in full force and maybe not. That's cycling, either way. It's fabulous to have the show, that's for sure.12-10-2026 02:58
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RidesHills
At 20, Evenepoel was already amazing, Pogačar was getting started, and many others have been hailed as the next great. Seixas seems to actually have the goods - to win so young, with such skill, and so little of a career? I hope he can continue in whatever flavor he finds - Pogačar the grand tour rider who seems to enjoy the frantic classics more, Evenepoel the completist TT and RR championship rider, and so on. Seixas seems like a grand tour climber and Liége/Lombardia kind of guy, but that’s how Pogačar started off as well. This is such fun to watch, it’s a good time to be a fan of cycling.11-10-2026 00:58
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RidesHills
@SLO: Your ridiculously rude language about riders makes it really hard to read your consistently condescending comments. "BS losers," how is it ok to talk about people like that? Also, you truly sound like you do not understand that this is a team sport, where del Toro rides for his leader and therefore doesn't follow his attacks. We can all agree that we are watching a once in a generation (really, a once in a century) rider in Pogačar, and that's great, but come on, you don't have to be a jerk when it comes to other riders. It's clear that I prefer to praise the positive in what I see, mostly because I am in awe of what these humans can do (including the ones who don't win), but your negativity about anyone but your idol is just so very very exhausting.10-10-2026 20:12
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RidesHills
Seixas just raced a splendid race, with timing and patience and leveraging the work of all the other teams - Yates led him out beautifully, oops. A beautiful ride, truly showing off what was made clear at Strade Bianchi and Liége-Bastogne-Liége. Well deserved champion, and a new first time Monument winner for the first time in quite a while (Philipsen 2024)!10-10-2026 17:05
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RidesHills
UAE was really badly positioned at the last climb, and Ineos did a great job of making that happen at the bottom. That must have affected del Toro and the rest. His attack wasn't spectacular, and they hadn't ripped apart the bunch enough, letting a large group remain in back to reel him in. UAW lost the race on the road to the climb and the bottom third of it, I think.08-10-2026 18:42
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RidesHills
Bernal won the Tour because his attack stuck after Thomas’s was reeled in, and then they ended the stage due to the landslide - a deserved win, but contingent on many things. He won the Giro with quality and skill. And then, like so often happens for the cruelest of reasons, his injuries left him an incomplete version of his former self. He’s had a great career, what a great GC rider (8 of his 23 wins are GC, including 2 grand tours and 2 of the 7 major GC races), but already was struggling after COVID. I wish him the best, and if he retires, he should retire with pride for a career well done!07-10-2026 23:24