The French nugget is one of the four tricolor runners who double the world and European championships, with Valentin Paret-Peintre, Pavel Sivakov and Julien Bernard.
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After exhausting world championships, whose online race was only finished by 30 runners out of the 165 at the start, place at the European Championships, from Wednesday 1 to Sunday October 5, in Drôme-Ardèche, with the biggest stars of the peloton expected on the elite men's race, including Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel. French coach Thomas Voeckler unveiled his list, Tuesday, September 30: he will notably count on Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) and Paul Seixas (Decathlon-Ag2r La Mondiale).
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On a 202.5-kilometer route, with more than 3,300 meters of elevation, the climbers-puckers are expected, and Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) is presented as the leader of this collective, he who should be cooler physically since he was not on the trip to Rwanda. But Paul Seixas, best French in Kigali with his 13th place, when he had never run over such a long distance (267.5 kilometers), could do well. At 19, the winner of the Tour de l'Avenir continues his learning. “We have taken a lot of experience. I rarely arrived at a stage of suffering like that, it was perhaps the hardest race of my life. I spent a CAP”he said at the microphone of Eurosport at the arrival of the Worlds.
Like him, Valentin Paret-Peintre, Pavel Sivakov and Julien Bernard will wear the jersey of the French team for the second time in a week. “We don't have a head that exceeds the fray, I count on the guys to adapt to the race scenarios”explained Thomas Voeckler on the L'Equipe channel, without wanting to reveal his plans. For the time trial, on the other hand, Paul Seixas will be put to rest, and it is Bruno Armirail and Rémi Cavagna who will represent France, Wednesday, October 1.
The coach of the French female team Paul Brousse returns to his confidence in the entire runners present in Rwanda, namely Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt, Léa Curinier, Cédrine Kerbaol, Juliette Labous, Marie Le Net, Evita Muzic and Maëva Squiban. But as the Bleues take advantage of an eighth runner, when they were only seven in Kigali, it was Marion Bunel, 5th in the Hopes race at the Worlds after a huge work for Célia Géry, who joined the group.
