{"id":1615,"date":"2026-04-07T17:16:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:16:01","slug":"the-ranking-of-the-1st-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1615","title":{"rendered":"The ranking of the 1st stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>On this Easter Monday, the Tour of the Basque Country 2026 started with a time trial around Bilbao.<\/p>\n<p>This first act made us want to see more, with the victory of Frenchman Paul Seixas (DCT) in the time trial, author of an impressive time. This is his first success in the WorldTour. He is ahead of his compatriot K\u00e9vin Vauquelin (IGD), 2nd with 23 seconds behind, and Felix Gro\u00dfschartner (UAD), 3rd at 27 seconds. Paul Seixas continues after his stage victory at the Tour d&#8217;Algarve, a success at the Faun-Ard\u00e8che Classic and his 2nd place at the Strade Bianche.<\/p>\n<h2>A grueling course, managed to perfection by the prodigy Seixas<\/h2>\n<p>The runners had to climb Santo Domingo (2.4 km at 7.3%) and finish on a climb at 19%, which obviously already widened the gaps in the general classification after 13.9 km.<\/p>\n<p>For more than an hour, Paul Seixas sat in the best time chair, seeing the names of the runners go by, without being able to beat him. The favorites Primoz Roglic (28\u2033), Florian Lipowitz (33\u2033), Isaac Del Toro (50\u2033) and Juan Ayuso (1\u203216\u2033) are already behind.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-placeholder u-placeholder-twitter\" data-vendor=\"xtwitter-3cVkYrxq\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper u-hidden\">\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" data-lang=\"fr_FR\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">OH THIS CHRONO BY PAUL SEIXAS \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman destroys Primoz Roglic&#8217;s time and takes the provisional lead in the time trial of the Tour du Pays-Basque! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LesRP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LesRP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iF9GX2xeND\">pic.twitter.com\/iF9GX2xeND<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eurosport France (@Eurosport_FR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eurosport_FR\/status\/2041151413716189366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p-xxl@xs border-color-grey-200 radius-l@xs cmp-placeholder u-hidden\">\n<p class=\"mb-m@xs text-l@xs\">By clicking on<span class=\"ml-xxs@xs font-weight-bold@xs\">\u201cI accept\u201d<\/span>you accept the deposit of cookies by external services and will thus have access to the content of our partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-xl@xs text-s@xs\">More information on the Cookie management policy page<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"mx-auto@xs flex@xs items-center@xs justify-center@xs gap-xxs@xs c-btn c-btn--primary cmp-button\">I accept<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The classification of the 1st stage of the Tour of the Basque Country 2026<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 PAUL SEIXAS &#8211; DECATHLON CMA CGM TEAM 17m09s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 K\u00c9VIN VAUQUELIN &#8211; INEOS GRENADIERS at 23s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf9 FELIX GROSSSCHARTNER &#8211; UAE TEAM EMIRATES &#8211; XRG \u00e0 27s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddee PRIMO\u017d ROGLI\u010c &#8211; RED BULL \u2013 BORA \u2013 HANSGROHE \u00e0 28s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea ILAN VAN WILDER &#8211; SOUDAL QUICK-STEP at 29s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea FLORIAN LIPOWITZ &#8211; RED BULL \u2013 BORA \u2013 HANSGROHE\t\u00e0 33s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 ANDREW AUGUST &#8211; INEOS GRENADIERS in 40s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 BRANDON MCNULTY &#8211; UAE TEAM EMIRATES \u2013 XRG at 43s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddf0 MATTIAS SKJELMOSE &#8211; LIDL \u2013 TREK \u00e0 45s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 MICHAEL LEONARD &#8211; EF EDUCATION \u2013 EASYPOST\t\u00e0 46s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 JAVIER ROMO &#8211; MOVISTAR TEAM at 48s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 BRUNO ARMIRAIL &#8211; TEAM VISMA | LEASE A BIKE 50s ago<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfd ISAAC DEL TORO &#8211; UAE TEAM EMIRATES \u2013 XRG \u00e0 51s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 BEN TULETT &#8211; TEAM VISMA | LEASE A BIKE\t\u00e0 52s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea MAURI VANSEVENANT &#8211; SOUDAL QUICK-STEP at 52s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 PELLO BILBAO &#8211; BAHRAIN \u2013 VICTORIOUS at 53s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf4 HAROLD TEJADA &#8211; XDS ASTANA TEAM at 55s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 MIKEL LANDA &#8211; SOUDAL QUICK-STEP\t\u00e0 55s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 ALEX BAUDIN &#8211; EF EDUCATION \u2013 EASYPOST\t\u00e0 56s<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 ETHAN HAYTER &#8211; SOUDAL QUICK-STEP\t\u00e0 56s<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this Easter Monday, the Tour of the Basque Country 2026 started with a time trial around Bilbao. This first act made us want to see more, with the victory of Frenchman Paul Seixas (DCT) in the time trial, author of an impressive time. This is his first success in the WorldTour. He is ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}