Tom Dumoulin will no longer go too fast, especially during the time trials where he excelled.
The Dutchman of the Jumbo-Visma team, 31, announced on Friday that he would end his career at the end of the season.
“I am a happy man and I can be very proud of my career,” Dumoulin wrote on his Facebook account.
“We have decided the team and I to achieve a few more great things over the past few months.
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This is not the first time that Dumoulin has stopped his career, but this time it seems irrevocable.
Forced to retire from the Giro last week, he returned to cycling after taking a break at the end of January 2021 to "think about his future".
Winner of the Tour of Italy and the Binck Bank Tour in 2017, among others, the Dutchman returned to the peloton in June 2021 at the Tour de Suisse and was then crowned Dutch time trial champion and won the medal. silver in the time trial at the Tokyo Olympics, as at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
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— Tom Dumoulin (@tom_dumoulin) June 3, 2022
Tom Dumoulin began his professional career ten years ago with the Argos-Shimano team, which later became Giant-Shimano, Giant-Alpecin and Sunweb.
It was also under the colors of Sunweb that Dumoulin had his best season: in 2017, he won the Tour of Italy, as well as two of its stages, the world title in the individual time trial and the team time trial.
The following year, he finished second in the Giro and the Tour de France (behind Geraint Thomas), winning a stage in both cases, and took silver in the individual time trial and the team time trial at the Worlds.
His 2019 season was compromised by an injury sustained following a fall in the fourth stage of the Giro.
Transferred to Jumbo-Visma, he hoped to recover in 2020, but the season, disrupted by the coronavirus, was more complicated than expected.
Tom Dumoulin totals 22 victories in his career, including four stages and a final victory at the Giro, three stages of the Tour de France and two of the Vuelta.
