Teams & Riders Tom Dumoulin discussion thread

[Lequack]

Why on earth did you bump this? He's retired, there is no news. Dutch people reading the forum are getting heart attacks seeing this thread got bumped.

I don't know, just curiousity I guess. I wonder about a lot of riders who have retired, it's just natural. Contador, Valverde, Nibali, etc. A lot of them stay close to cycling still.

I did find some piece of news that someone is writing a book about him which will come out this month in March:

Wielerjournalist Roy Schriemer schrijft boek over Dumoulin: 'Tom heeft wielergeschiedenis geschreven'

Het is misschien wel een van de meest markante coureurs in de vaderlandse wielergeschiedenis: de vorig jaar gestopte Tom Dumoulin. Iemand die openlijk zijn twijfels over zichzelf durfde uit te spreken. Maar ook iemand die onmiskenbaar zijn plekje in de vaderlandse wielerhistorie heeft veroverd...

www.rtvoost.nl

The book will be published in March. Dumoulin did not cooperate. “I’ve talked to Tom many times over the years. I have not experienced that as a great loss. But Tom just stopped. Now is the right time to look back. Together with Jan Janssen and Joop Zoetemelk, he is the only one who has ever won a Grand Tour. So he is really one of the biggest Dutch cyclists ever.”

 

[CyclistAbi]

I seen he was doing some cross-country skiing during the winter and a few days back i have seen a video on YouTube. With Tom and Zeeman and some other people in it. As it was not in English i don't know what it was about.

 

[Red Rick]

Bit blown away by the fact that he actually had a rough patch before the 2017 Giro.

 

[rallybanana]

Tom came second in a 10 kilometer run in Maastricht today. His time was 32:38.

https://www.wielerflits.nl/nieuws/tom-dumoulin-tweede-bij-hardloopwedstrijd-van-10-kilometer-in-maastricht/

He finished 21st in the Amsterdam half marathon last weekend. His time was 1:10:04

Come corre Tom Dumoulin, l'ex ciclista ha chiuso l'Amsterdam Half Marathon in 1:10'04"

Il vincitore del Giro d'Italia del 2017 anche cambiando sport continua ad andare fortissimo. Dopo il tempo "mostre" nei 10K, arriva un'altra grande prova

www.runnersworld.com

 

[Lequack]

He's going to be a dad. Congrats!

 

[Red Rick]

Feels like he divorced yesterday

 

[Sciatic]

He's going to be a dad. Congrats!

Maybe they do their “gender reveal” by him walking out the door in his pink Giro jersey or a blue one? Ack, I really don’t all that stuff. You’re making a kid’s life performative and “for show” even before they’re born. Ok, rant off.

 

[rallybanana]

Feels like he divorced yesterday

Red Rick Van Winkle

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

He's going to be a dad. Congrats!

and now son Oscar is born already!

 

[CyclistAbi]

Ko se kolesar preizkusi še kot tekač

Nekdanji profesionalni kolesar Tom Dumoulin je na športnem vikendu v Egmondu dosegel izjemen uspeh. Postavil je osebni rekord v polmaratonu.

sportklub.n1info.si

Still peaking.

 

[Wyndbrook]

Ko se kolesar preizkusi še kot tekač

Nekdanji profesionalni kolesar Tom Dumoulin je na športnem vikendu v Egmondu dosegel izjemen uspeh. Postavil je osebni rekord v polmaratonu.

sportklub.n1info.si

Still peaking.

Double peaking, on his bike in a beach race the day before.

 

[Red Rick]

Big Tom did his first marathon, running a very respectable 2h29m21s. Madman started on 2h18m pace

 

[harrybo]

clearly still a class act

 

[dercuforever]

Big Tom did his first marathon, running a very respectable 2h29m21s. Madman started on 2h18m pace

He really likes to suffer. Last kilometers must have been hellish.

 

[Penninepeddler]

With running times like that...

can the man swim? Give him some lessons and with his natural ability sure he would be a pretty good swimmer quickly.

Would be fun to see.

He is a better runner and cyclist than Cameron Wurf who has a 5th, 7th and 9th place finishes at the Ironman Worlds and has won 5x Ironmans and is ranked top 10 in the world right now...

over just the bike and the run you would probably expect Dumoulin to take 10 minutes out of Wurf.

Believe Wurf has never broken 2:30 for a marathon (his PB is around 2:36, albeit in NYC which is a tougher marathon than Amsterdam, albeit not 7 minutes tougher, more like 1-2 minutes) and Dumoulin just ran a 2:29 in his first ever one while only running 2 days a week?!?!

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Dumoulin has been running for years now. A few years back he did 10 k in like 32 minutes. He's got a good running engine. I don't know if he had trained any running in his youth. I won't say I'm that surprised: the guy has an elite aerobic system.