Tom Dumoulin’s on-again-off-again relationship with the sport looks to be set to ‘off’ for good. The Dutch rider has announced his intent to retire at the end of the 2022 season, with a statement on his Instagram page. Dumoulin boasts a palmares that includes nine grand tour stage wins, a Giro d’Italia overall victory, and a World Time Trial Championship. He may yet add to it before he retires, with the Worlds in Australia being his final target for the season. Good luck, Tom. Find a hobby that makes you happy.
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Report Navigating a nervous stage fraught with crosswind danger Team DSM set up fast finisher Alberto Dainese for the bunch gallop into Reggio Emilia, with the Italian producing a brilliant kick to surge past his sprint competitors and taking an incredible win for the team on stage 11. The team set out with two goals for the stage; keeping GC contender Romain Bardet safe in the potential crosswinds and setting up a fast finale. With goal one ticked off after some superb and attentive riding throughout the day, all eyes within the team switched to delivering Dainese into the best…
It’s been an emotional rollercoaster ride. Yet, also one that can be summed up in a few words: Biniam Girmay made history on stage 10 of the 2022 Giro d’Italia, then 15 minutes later fired a champagne cork into his own eye on the victory podium. He will not make the start line of the 11th stage of the Giro d’Italia Santarcangelo di Romagna. After the podium ceremony, the Eritrean rider was immediately taken to hospital in Jesi for medical examinations. These examinations revealed damage in the left eye, which require the utmost care and rest. In consultation with the…
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In short? Lotta hills, not a lotta time-trials. That makes things difficult for some riders, but opens the door to the climbers as a major target. And it’s just better to watch. 51km of altitude gain. 26.3km of time-trialing. LOL. Here’s the route. The Route The 2022 Giro starts in Hungary, beginning with an uphill sprint(?) finale. Then we go straight into a 9.2km time-trial. One day for the sprinters, and then we’re on for an early rest day. When we return, we’re on Sicily, headed to Mt Etna. That’s a volcano. Stage Four, folks! Sprints for two days following,…
Dunno why we’re sharing this. They can email a press release to us, but they can’t acquire us? Might not even make a retro version of their logo, that’s how half-assed we’re feeling. The publishing process is less asynchronous for you, so we guess you already know whether we decided to do it or just download some shit from the internet. Here’s the press release with no jokes or copy editing. Quite liked working Elephant Rock back in the day. Maybe they’ll send us a branded Elephant Rock bidon to replace the one we lost, since we shared this news?…
The 2022 Giro d’Italia is wide open. The perhaps understandable absence of Pogacar, Roglic, and Bernal opens the door to a first grand tour of the season with no clear favorite. There are, however, former winners on the startline, and several other riders who’ve impressed in previous years. Richard Carapaz (INEOS) The Ecuadorian won the 2019 edition of the Giro d’Italia, and arrives as the closest thing to a favorite. His INEOS Grenadiers team has dominated the race in recent seasons, and brings capable support led by super domestique Richie Porte. Tom Dumoulin (Jumbo-Visma) Tom Dumoulin returned to the sport…