“There are not many true favorites as in other years, so it may be a more open final,” the 25-year-old Dumoulin for the start in Maastricht.
“We have as a team so go very careful, but I’m afraid I still continue to wait until the last climb of the Cauberg. It usually is of little use to go before that. “
the riders must be in the su ‘ n 250-kilometer Amstel Gold Race a total of 34 climbs, but the favorites usually keep quiet until the last of four climbs of the Cauberg. From the top, it is still 1.8 kilometers to the finish.
“Everyone thinks so, they have to keep waiting, and that makes it so difficult,” said Dumoulin. “We need to actually form a kind of coalition we are going to do things differently, but that will be difficult.”
“I can do something on the penultimate climb of the Cauberg, but then eighty men behind you drive, has a time ride to the finish little sense “
Video: Amstel Gold Race started in Maastricht
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Training period
Dumoulin made last Wednesday in the Brabantse Pijl his comeback after several weeks without races and has already said that he will not be able to do immediately expect them to win, because he is in a training period.
the Dutchman, who focuses on the Giro d’Italia next month and especially in the Olympic time trial in August, is his team Giant-Alpecin one of three protected riders in the Gold Race, along with the German Simon Geschke and Frenchman Warren Barguil.
the only Dutch classic is to start 10:15 gone in Maastricht . The finish is expected around 16.30
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