abu dhabi team had a decent outing in the concluded abu dhabi tour with wilco finishing up to winner alejandro valverde movistar and their young phil bauhaus claiming a victory last event of the tour 3 unfortunately the same can said their main general classification gc contender somewhat a superstar in cycling tom dumoulin who had to two back days of failures that pushed him out of contention however level headed dumoulin this should merely be a blip as will be preparing himself for the grand tours later in the year also read abu dhabi sporting hub like none othertoi sports caught with the dutch after stage three to talk about his interest in cycling how he started with the sport and how feels about the accolades he has earned in a rather short while bauhaus dumoulin s teammate took up cycling at the age eight and always knew he get into professional cycling similar to most of the pro cyclists with ultra competitive environment like any other top level sport in the world you need to be focussed you need to be ready and you need to start early so you think right read inside colourful world of with anthony mccrossanbut for dumoulin the 2017 giro ditalia winner the first ever dutch rider to conquer the one of cycling s grand races world individual s time champion the man touted to be the next big thing in the sport men s cycling was not really planning to be professional rider born in maastricht in the southeast of the netherlands s interest in cycling came about watching the amstel gold race one day race held in april of being in a country the number of outnumber the population will eventually will lead to take up the sport but for that also came about too grew up with cycling it was there that one of the classics place the amstel gold and i watched it couple of times next to the road says the 27 year old and the reason took up cycling was the fact that he enjoyed amstel gold race as a spectator yet was nt to the extent of leaving primary goal of being a doctor i started cycling when i was 15 little bit by accident and also i the race and it looked really cool remembers dumoulin with ambition of becoming doctor fading away dumoulin into health sciences which clearly he did and dropped a year all this the cycling enthusiast was making heads with his cycling skills sample this in the uci nations cup the dutch rider rode the time for the first time in his life