Tom Dumoulin, Olympic silver medalist and former Giro d’Italia winner, will retire at the end of this season. The 31-year-old Dutchman evokes physical and mental fatigue. Dumoulin stopped for the first time at the start of 2021.
“I have decided that 2022 will be my last year as a professional cyclist“, said on social networks Tom Dumoulin.
“I am a happy man and I can be very proud of my career“, added the rider of the Dutch team Jumbo-Visma. “We decided the team and I to achieve some more beautiful things during these last months.“
Three stages of the Tour de France
After his retirement in 2021, he regained his place a few months later in the peloton and won the national time trial title before climbing to the Olympic podium for the second time, 5 years after his Olympic medal. silver from Rio already in the time trial.
Dumoulin began his career in the Argos team which became Giant and then Sunweb in 2013. He joined the main Dutch formation, Jumbo, in 2020.
World time trial champion in 2017, he notably won 3 stages of the Tour de France including 2 individual times.
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