At Strade Bianche and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Seixas finished second to Pogačar. At La Flèche Wallonne, with Pogačar absent, he won outright. That's the pattern Worlds now tests in reverse: Pogačar was never entered for the Canadian GPs, and his fractured collarbone leaves his Montréal start in doubt. Seixas has spent 2026 racing as the closest challenger to "the boss of cycling," in his own words — Québec and Montréal ask whether he can race as the man everyone else is chasing instead.