Tom Dumoulin: Olympics, not Grand Tours, my main focus in 2016

As a time triallist with Tour hopes, comparisons with Sir Bradley Wiggins are inevitable, but the 25-year-old Dutchman is very much his own man

Tom Dumoulin

(Image credit: Graham Watson)

Wearing the red leader’s jersey of the Vuelta a España, Tom Dumoulin rode over the finish line and to his white Giant-Alpecin team car. The press surrounded him as he sat down.

He looked up at the leader board above the podium. It showed that he had lost the race by three minutes and 46 seconds to Italian Fabio Aru of Astana. But it failed to relay the bigger message: the birth of a new Grand Tour star.

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Gregor Brown

Gregor Brown is an experienced cycling journalist, based in Florence, Italy. He has covered races all over the world for over a decade - following the Giro, Tour de France, and every major race since 2006. His love of cycling began with freestyle and BMX, before the 1998 Tour de France led him to a deep appreciation of the road racing season.