Tom Dumoulin He already announced in June 2022 that this would be his last year and three months later he made his retirement official. The Dutch rider wants to retire after the dispute of Australian World Championshipbut ‘the butterfly of Maastricht’ He advanced his decision: “The tank is empty, my legs are very heavy and the training sessions are not working as expected,” Dumoulin acknowledged.
Since then, the former professional cyclist has recalled on more than one occasion part of the ordeal he went through and that led him to come forward with his decision, as he did today for his country’s media outlet ‘De Telegraaf’ .
From SunDumoulin sign for Jumbo-Visma – now the most powerful of Jonas Vingegaard, Wout Van Aert and Sepp Kuss, among others – in a signing that seems to open wide options for him to continue to develop as a runner and continue to accumulate victories for a runner with many qualities, capable of doing well in everything of places, and who has even been compared to the great Miguel Indurain.
But it was quite the opposite, as Dumoulin himself recalled: “I needed freedom and autonomy and Jumbo-Visma defended the structure. There is nothing wrong with that team, because they do amazing things and they have everything, even that in my years. But even more I lost that part that I needed, that autonomy. Not with bad intentions, because the team had the best for me, but I lost it. I lost a part of myself, which made my marriage unhappy.”.
A bad state that also lived in Tour de France 2020, where he went fifth to finish 7th. “I didn’t feel well at that time and I was very sad, that was evident in the documentary ‘Code Geel’. I don’t want to watch it again.”
Tom Dumoulin He debuted in 2011 at the rank of Rabobank Continental Team and his last race was Classic in San Sebastian of July 30, 2022 which he did not finish. During these years, he achieved a total of 22 victories – the last of which was the national time trial championship of his country – he became the world time trial champion in 2017 and won the 2018 Giro d’Italia.
Source: La Verdad
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