Tom Dumoulin heads to the Tour de Romandie aiming for success in the two tests against the clock. The WorldTour stage race kicks off with 3.95 km prologue in La Chaux-de-Fonds and features a 15.1km time trial on stage 3 in Sion.
Eight of Dumoulin's professional wins have come against the clock but the 25-year-old is yet to taste victory in 2016 with the Paris-Nice prologue, in which he finished a narrow second, his sole time trial this season. Giant-Alpecin coach Arthur van Dongen explained Dumoulin will look to set up a tilt at the GC with top performances in the prologue and stage 3.
"We have two main goals for this race; to go for a stage victory with Tom [Dumoulin] in either the prologue or the time trial, and to focus on the general classification with him," van Dongen said. "The 2016 edition parcours is very demanding and I am expecting a hard race. It will be very important to finish preparing the form of the guys before the start of the Giro d'Italia. We have a balanced team and the experienced Johannes [Fröhlinger] will be our road captain and he will be helping to guide the team in the different scenarios that present themselves."
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Dumoulin started his season at the Tour of Oman, finishing fourth, before heading to Paris-Nice for 12th overall but was then forced to withdraw from his third stage race of the year at the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya on stage 3 as he prepares to challenge for the Giro d'Italia next month.
Giant-Alpecin for the Tour de Romandie: Tom Dumoulin, Johannes Fröhlinger, Chad Haga, Cheng Ji, Tobias Ludvigsson, Georg Preidler, Tom Stamsnijder and Albert Timmer.
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