'Before yesterday I would have said we were favourites for the Tour,' says Tom Dumoulin

The Dutchman says he is feeling as good as he did when he finished runner-up at the 2018 Tour de France

Tom Dumoulin and Wout van Aert at the 2020 Critérium du Dauphiné (Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty Images)

(Image credit: AFP via Getty Images)

Tom Dumoulin says until Jumbo-Visma's day to forget on stage four of the Critérium du Dauphiné he would have said his team were favourites for the Tour de France.

Despite losing two of their leaders to crashes during the race's penultimate stage, Jumbo-Visma bounced back as Sepp Kuss took the stage five victory.

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Hi. I'm Cycling Weekly's Weekend Editor. I like writing offbeat features and eating too much bread when working out on the road at bike races.


Before joining Cycling Weekly I worked at The Tab and I've also written for Vice, Time Out, and worked freelance for The Telegraph (I know, but I needed the money at the time so let me live).


I also worked for ITV Cycling between 2011-2018 on their Tour de France and Vuelta a España coverage. Sometimes I'd be helping the producers make the programme and other times I'd be getting the lunches. Just in case you were wondering - Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen had the same ham sandwich every day, it was great.