Can Seixas end one of France’s sporting droughts?
Teenage prodigy Paul Seixas’s participation at the Tour de France has raised home hopes of a first French victory in 41 years. Not since cycling great Bernard Hinault’s record-equalling fifth triumph in 1985 has a Frenchman crossed the finishing line on the Champs Elysees knowing he had won the fabled yellow jersey. France’s Grande Boucle […] The post Can Seixas end one of France’s sporting droughts? appeared first on The Namibian .
Teenage prodigy Paul Seixas’s participation at the Tour de France has raised home hopes of a first French victory in 41 years.
Not since cycling great Bernard Hinault’s record-equalling fifth triumph in 1985 has a Frenchman crossed the finishing line on the Champs Elysees knowing he had won the fabled yellow jersey.
France’s Grande Boucle drought is one of a number of painful losing runs the country is seeking to end.
When the next edition of French cycling’s greatest one-day classic, Paris-Roubaix, takes place in April 2027, it will have been 30 years since Frederic Guesdon tasted glory in the outdoor Roubaix velodrome.
Longer still than their Tour frustration is France’s wait for a men’s winner of the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros.
Yannick Noah was the last home winner on the Parisian clay in 1983 — and even then he ended a 37-year wait for French fans to celebrate one of their own men lifting the trophy.
