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Pogacar beats French teen Seixas to win 4th Liege-Bastogne-Liege title

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“World champion Tadej Pogacar won a third straight Liege-Bastogne-Liege on Sunday after a thrilling battle with French teen sensation Paul Seixas.”
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Multiple web search results report that Tadej Pogacar won Liege-Bastogne-Liege for a third time, citing sources like AFP and BBC Sport. One source notes he won the race on Sunday.
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web search NEUTRAL — Liege (Belgium) (AFP) – Slovenian cycling superstar Tadej Pogacar produced a stunning turn of pace to solo his way to his third Liege-Bastogne-Liege on Sunday to close the spring classics season. Issu…
https://www.rfi.fr/en/sports/20250427-ruthless-pogacar-wins-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Tadej Pogacar put in another dominant one-day display to win the men’s race while Kim Le Court won a sprint for the line in the women’s event.Tadej Pogacar launched one of his trademark uphill attacks…
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/apr/27/cycling-tadej-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Pogacar wins third Liege-Bastogne-Liege title.Pogacar has won the last four consecutive editions of the one-day race in Italy and will be seeking to equal Fausto Coppi's record of five wins overall.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/articles/cd9lp4qvvyyo
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“World champion Tadej Pogacar pulled ahead of 19-year-old French debutant Paul Seixas in the final climb to secure his third straight Liege-Bastogne-Liege title on Sunday, his fourth overall victory in the race.”
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Multiple web search results corroborate that Pogacar pulled away from Paul Seixas on the final climb to win his third straight Liege-Bastogne-Liege title. One source also mentions this was his fourth overall victory in the race.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Liège–Bastogne–Liège is an upcoming Belgian road cycling one-day race scheduled to take place on 26 April. It will be the 112th edition of Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the 19th event of the 2026 …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Liège–Bastogne–Liège
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ardennes classics are three cycling classics held in mid-April in the Belgian Ardennes and southern Limburg in the Netherlands: Liège–Bastogne–Liège, La Flèche Wallonne and Amstel Gold Race. First…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardennes_classics
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Paul Seixas (born 24 September 2006) is a French road cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Decathlon CMA CGM Team. He won the junior time trial at the 2024 UCI Road World Championships. Subsequent vic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Seixas
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“Pogacar romped to his 13th Monument victory and fourth in total at La Doyenne after finally cracking Seixas with 14km to ride of the 260km slog through the Ardennes, halfway up the last of 11 punchy climbs along the route.”
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The web search results mention Pogacar's victories and the race details, but none of the provided evidence specifically confirm the details: '13th Monument victory', 'fourth total victory', 'gaining a 14km lead over Seixas', or '11 punchy climbs'. The evidence is too general to confirm these specific metrics.
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web search NEUTRAL — The hallmark of Pogačar's Liège victories has been patience; he does not panic when others attack, and he reserves his most devastating accelerations for the moments that matter. On the Côte de la Roc…
https://www.rouleur.cc/blogs/the-rouleur-journal/liege-basto…
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web search NEUTRAL — Despite Pogačar’s success at La Grande Boucle over the years, the World Champion didn’t ride the race between winning his first and third Tour de France titles. Pogačar made his debut at the Dauphiné …
https://www.domestiquecycling.com/en/features/inside-pogacar…
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web search NEUTRAL — Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2026: Fourth victory for Pogačar?Premiere: 1892, 112th edition. Last year's winner: Tadej Pogačar. Record winner: Eddy Merckx (five times). Liège-Bastogne-Liège has been held sinc…
https://www.tour-magazin.de/en/professional-cycling/latest-n…
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“Seixas came home 45 seconds later with Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel winning the sprint for third place from a large group 1min 42sec back.”
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The web search results provide information about Remco Evenepoel's wins and other riders, but none of the provided evidence specifically confirm the details: 'Paul Seixas came home 45 seconds later' or 'from a group that was 1 minute and 42 seconds behind the winner'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 Critérium du Dauphiné was a road cycling stage race that took place between 8 and 15 June in the Dauphiné region of southeastern France. It was the 77th edition of Critérium du Dauphiné and t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Critérium_du_Dauphiné
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 UCI Road World Championships was the 98th edition of the UCI Road World Championships, the annual world championships for road bicycle racing. It was held from 21 to 28 September 2025 in Kiga…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_UCI_Road_World_Championsh…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Men's time trial of the 2025 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 21 September 2025 in Kigali, Rwanda. It was the 32nd edition of the championship, for which Remco E…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_UCI_Road_World_Championsh…
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“In what was only his fifth race this year, Pogacar claimed a fourth victory -- and three of those in Monuments -- while his only blip was a second place behind Wout van Aert at Paris-Roubaix two weeks ago.”
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The web search results mention Pogacar's victories and Monument wins, and Wout van Aert's career achievements are listed in Wikipedia. However, the specific combination of 'fifth race this year', 'fourth victory', 'three Monument wins', and 'only blip was a second place behind Wout van Aert at Paris-Roubaix two weeks ago' cannot be verified by the evidence provided.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of career achievements by Wout van Aert, a Belgian professional racing cyclist for UCI WorldTeam Visma–Lease a Bike. Originally a cyclo-cross competitor as a junior, van Aert has also c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_career_achievements_by…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The cycling rivalry between Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel is considered among the greatest and longest lasting rivalries in the sport, as they are contemporaries and have competed against eac…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Aert–Van_der_Poel_rivalry
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Wout van Aert (born 15 September 1994) is a Belgian professional road and cyclo-cross racer who rides for UCI WorldTeam Visma–Lease a Bike. Van Aert won three consecutive men's races at the UCI Cyclo-…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wout_van_Aert
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“It was Seixas's first attempt at Liege and only his second ever Monument race having finished a distant seventh behind Pogacar at last October's Tour of Lombardy.”
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The web search results confirm Paul Seixas's involvement in Liège-Bastogne-Liege and his previous Monument race at the Tour of Lombardy. However, the specific details ('first attempt at Liege', 'second Monument race', 'finished a distant seventh at last October's Tour of Lombardy') are not independently corroborated by multiple sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Liège–Bastogne–Liège is an upcoming Belgian road cycling one-day race scheduled to take place on 26 April. It will be the 112th edition of Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the 19th event of the 2026 …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Liège–Bastogne–Liège
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — La Flèche Wallonne (pronounced [la flɛʃ walɔn], French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. It is part of the UCI World Tour. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Flèche_Wallonne
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Paul Seixas (born 24 September 2006) is a French road cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Decathlon CMA CGM Team. He won the junior time trial at the 2024 UCI Road World Championships. Subsequent vic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Seixas
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“But having won the Fleche Wallonne build-up race on Wednesday, Seixas continues to prove with every outing that he is Pogacar's heir apparent.”
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Two independent web search results confirm that Paul Seixas won La Flèche Wallonne on Wednesday. One source also notes this victory fueled hopes of challenging Pogacar's dominance.
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web search NEUTRAL — La Flèche Wallonne 2026: Teen star Paul Seixas powers up Mur de Huy to claim road cycling classic victory, as Demi Vollering holds off Puck Pieterse. 12 hours ago. Save for later.As it happened: Frenc…
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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web search NEUTRAL — Paul Seixas (19) won the Flèche Wallonne on Wednesday, further fuelling the hopes of the French nation. The excitement is also alive in the peloton, as they see a young talent emerge who can perhaps c…
https://www.idlprocycling.com/cycling/pogacar-needed-a-few-e…
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web search NEUTRAL — Clear winner: Paul Seixas won La Fleche Wallonne at his first attempt.Seixas is regarded as the finest talent France has produced in decades. He has backed that up this season by winning the Tour of t…
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260422-french-teenag…
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