Oddly, the Amstel Gold Race is the only major race – at World Tour level – hosted by the Dutch, a great people of pedalers. Born in Maastricht, Tom Dumoulin, winner of the 2017 Giro, watched it go by as a child before racing it six times. Retired, he attended as a simple spectator in 2021, and the desire to run came back to him like a boomerang. “It’s an emotional race, very important for a Dutch runner. It was at Amstel that I started to think about returning, for the Tokyo Games. When I was younger, that’s also when I told myself that I could stop playing football for cycling. »
