After winning the Giro d'Italia in 2017, there was no Grand Tour victory for Tom Dumoulin in 2018, but the Dutchman nevertheless established himself as one of the leading three-week racers by finishing runner-up at both the Giro and the Tour de France.
The stage looked set for a full-on crack at the Tour in 2019, but it was recently announced that the 28-year-old will once again set the Giro d'Italia as his primary objective.
Dumoulin sat down with Cyclingnews at a recent Sunweb training camp to discuss that decision, and to explain why the Giro-Tour double is still on the cards this year. The former time trial world champion also discusses his development as a rider, and how his climbing has improved to such an extent that he can now consistently match the best in the world, along with how that has caused his career to take on possibilities that were unimaginable a few years ago.
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Cyclingnews: You've decided to focus on the Giro d'Italia over the Tour de France in 2019. That came as a surprise to many…
Tom Dumoulin: Yeah. I was hoping to do the Tour. I was planning on riding the Tour and just focusing on that next year, and the team was planning on doing that, but it kind of changed because of a very nice Giro parcours and a not very nice Tour parcours – maybe not in general, but for me personally.
CN: Was it frustrating, having to rip up those plans?
Giro-Tour double
Becoming a top Grand Tour rider
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