the dutch Tom Dumoulinwinner of the Giro d’Italia in 2017 and time trial world champion the same year, announced his retirement on Monday “with immediate effect”.
“I have decided to leave professional cycling with immediate effect (…) The deposit is empty”he wrote on his Twitter account.
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Dumoulin, 31, had announced at the beginning of June that he would end his activity as a professional cyclist at the end of the season, and was “impatient” to participate in the World Championships next month in Australia. He finally chose to speed up the course of things.
Time trial specialist, great rider, comfortable in the mountains, the Jumbo-Visma rider, silver medal in time trial in the Tokyo Olympics, He had already made a parenthesis in his professional career at the beginning of the year 2021.
A few months later, he returned to the peloton and won silver at the Olympic event, just as he had done five years earlier in the same discipline at the Rio Games.
This year had not been up to the moment of his record. In the Giro d’Italia he left on stage 14 far from the fight for the general classification.
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And it didn’t figure in the cash of the Jumbo for the Tour de France.
Dumoulin turned professional in 2013 at the Argos team, later called Giant and then Sunweb (today DSM), before joining the strongest Dutch team, Jumbo, in 2020.
Second in the 2018 Tour de France behind the Welshman Geraint Thomas, he has three stage victories in the ‘Grande Boucle’, two of them against the clock.
