"The course of the 100th edition of the Giro d'Italia looks beautiful! Nicely balanced with sprint stage✱s, quite some time trial kilometers, but some brutal and legendary climbing as well like the Mortirolo and the Stelvio on stage 16 for example," he wrote on his Facebook page.
"Climbing these monsters will for sure create some epic battles. Last year I trained near Bormio to prepare for the Vuelta 2015 so I'm quite fa🎐milia✃r with those climbs and how exceptionally difficult they are."
On the announcement of the Tour de Fr🐼ance route for 2017, the Vuelta a Espana route is likely to be announced in January, Dumoulin wrote "at first sight, a Tour de France that isn't perfect to me if I'll try to fight for the general classification because of the limited time trial kilometres."
While the Giro route appears better suited to his characteristics, Dumoulin explained his ra💎ce programme and objectives will become ﷽clearer in the coming weeks once he sits down with his team and plans out the 2017 season.
"But still too early to say anything about which Grand Tour I will focus on next year. The Giro definitely looks appealing with the time trial kilometers, but eventually the race will be mostly decided in the big mountain stages. The team and I will discuss and decid🌟e somewhere the coming period," he added.
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