The 'explosion' of Dumoulin in numbers
Nearly Tom Dumoulin won the Vuelta. For three weeks he headed to win, but in the sight of Madrid he went under. This is the analysis of its round, on the basis of the figures of its power meter.
I know of no good reason not to share my data rate.
Tom Dumoulin
Tom Dumoulin was named most combative rider of the Vuelta. © afp.
And then it was suddenly. One moment he was hovering on a red cloud, the next he was lying on his back between the smithereens of a broken dream. Tom Dumoulin flew in the Tour of Spain - until the second-last day. But what happened now in the final stages? He received a blow from the man with the hammer? Hit the fatigue in him? Or why his rivals suddenly harder?
You can analyze the Vuelta of Dumoulin in a hundred ways. But when you rid cycling of all frills and tactical games, but remains the basis of: pedal hard. And how hard riders stairs, you can keep up: almost the entire platoon drives around with a power meter. Dumoulin also: on his steering wheel sits a Pioneer box. It is recorded each step of his. And those data be disclosed by him in this piece.
'Why not?'
That's pretty unique. Without exception, such as Steven Kruijswijk after the Giro, there are no classification riders who publish their data. Fearing that the competition is doing a job, or because they are afraid that figures are labeled as abnormal. Dumoulin: ,, I know of no good reason not to share my data rate. Only the data from my trial, I'd rather not make public. It can read other things on my aerodynamics. The rest everyone should know. "
His trainer Adrian Helmantel says: ,, We can declare Toms development with the figures that we have, we share with others. He would participate for the overall win in the Vuelta we had not expected immediately, but it is not strange that it happened. In the winter we have asked ourselves when Tom a big round could win. His performance data showed that it contained. He kicked in earlier trainings and trials values that he did not make it into the matches. In recent Vuelta indeed managed to get a few hours after its share price values. ''