Stop cycling with "immediate effect".

Tom Dumoulin has decided: the Dutchman of Jumbo Visma has announced through a statement on social media the retirement that was initially planned at the end of the season.

Dumoulin said he looks at his career "with incredible pride": "Last spring I saw that things weren't going the way I wanted, but I held out trying to compete in the World Championship, which will be held in Australia. I wanted to. face it in the same way as in the Tokyo Olympics, but I realized I can't take it anymore. The tank is empty, my legs feel heavy and the preparation is not going as planned. "

The 31-year-old Dutch rider closes after eleven years as a professional and a respectable record: winner of the Giro d'Italia 2017 and world time trial champion in the same year, Olympic runner-up in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, always silver at time trial at the 2018 World Championships and bronze in 2014. Among his successes there are also four stages of the Giro and three of the Tour de France. In 2018 the double second place on the Giro and Tour podiums.

Photo: Sprint Cycling

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