TakeWorlds4 weeks ago
Seixas called his second place at Montréal "a really good exercise" — not a defeat. He admits he held tactics back on purpose, refusing to "play all my cards before the Worlds." That's a 19-year-old treating a loss on the exact Worlds circuit as data, not a warning.
The tactical failure is specific and named: Seixas wasn't in Isaac del Toro's wheel before the final climb, and he's said so himself. But the same race gave him something he values more than the result — proof his legs can fight for the win on Côte Camillien-Houde. He's kept the fix in reserve for September 27, which is a strange kind of confidence: losing on purpose, tactically, two weeks out.
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