Tom Dumoulin (Jumbo-Visma) has confessed to struggling with back injury at this year’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d’Italia, after falling more than 19 minutes down in the general classif👍ication💙.
In a with Eurosport after Wednesday’s sprint stage 11 finishing in Reggio Emilia, Dumoulin responded to a question o𒐪n his current form by saying, “To be honest🧔, I have some issue with my back, so it is not great.”
Speaking about the team’s ride on stage 11, Dumoulin said, “It was quiet for us. A day to 💟get through. We don’t have a sprinter with us, and we don’t really have someone fighting for GC anymore. So not really a day to be doing something for us.”
Dumoulin took a break from professional cycling in 2021, leaving the Jumbo-Visma training camp in January - citing the pressures of life in ✃the pro peloton.
✨His return to the WorldTour in the autumn, after a 5-month hiatus, was much celebrated. Dumoulin showed impressive form in the opening time trial of the Giro d’Italia in Budapest, leading♚ many fans to hope that Dumoulin may recapture the form that carried him to overall victory at the 2017 race.
However, only a few days later Dumoulin was dropped by a group of favourites on the ascen🌊t of Etna on stage 4 of the race, struggling to keep pace on a 14% incline.
“I’m just not feeling good. It’s like that. I worked har🐓d to get here in the best shape possible,” Dumoulin told reporters after the stage 4 finish, but at that point did not mention back pain.
“Everything was O𝔍K. But I just don’t have the legs at the moment” he said after stage 4. 🌠“I don’t know why, but it is like it is.”
Dumoulin showed elation on stage 7, though, as he gave teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Koen Bouwman (Jumbo-Vism🔜a) a major assist in taking the stage win.
Jumbo-Visma have no clear GC contender, with Tobias Foss 29:50 down in the overall race lead, and no leading sprinter o🔜n their Giro roster, and so will now likely be contending for individual stage wins in the mountains or from breakaways.
Dumoulin has had a temperamental return to racing, having 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:broken his wrist after falling during a training ride in October. However, he has previously claimed that he’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:happy to be returning to Grand Tour racing, and has not ruled out rac♛ing🐼 at the Tour de France in July.
