Jumbo's Tour

RichN95.

Here's a documentary (in Dutch) about Jumbo's Tour de France. Enough is in English to make it worthwhile

https://nos.nl/artikel/2362227-zadelpijn-zat-dumoulin-dwars-tijdens-tour-overal-pijn-dit-kan-zo-niet-langer.html

MattFalle

Looks v good - grazie!

rick_chasey

Was good.


Main takeaway is Dumoulin is extremely high maintenance.

He talks A LOT

ddraver

I've not been calling him Princess Tom for neits...

davieb78

Just watched this. Tom really needs to get his backside sorted out!

jimmythecuckoo

Is this the one Twitter seems to think reveals doping?

davieb78

jimmythecuckoo said:

Is this the one Twitter seems to think reveals doping?

At the end of the time trial there are chats with Dumoulin and Roglic where they both can't comprehend how much time Pogacar took out of them. The feeling is of disbelief, suspicion even, but nothing untoward is stated. This has then been picked up on a bit by Twitter, yeah.

rick_chasey

It's also lost in translation.

The turn of phrase "hoe kan dat nou?!" is basically "how is this possible?" but it doesn't meant that. It's more of an exclamation.

Pross

davieb78 said:

Just watched this. Tom really needs to get his backside sorted out!

Has he had another Giro type incident?

neonriver

rick_chasey said:

It's also lost in translation.

The turn of phrase "hoe kan dat nou?!" is basically "how is this possible?" but it doesn't meant that. It's more of an exclamation.

Unsurprisingly Jeremy Whittle has the more suspicious point of view in his review here

https://lacourseentete.com/code-yellow-the-dutch-documentary-following-jumbo-vismas-ill-fated-2020-tour-de-france-reveals-more-about-the-state-of-the-sport-than-perhaps-its-subjects-intended/

davieb78

Pross said:

davieb78 said:

Just watched this. Tom really needs to get his backside sorted out!

Has he had another Giro type incident?

No, but he had various saddle sore problems (which he's had before). Between that and his Giro incident, his backside and his bowels seem quite a weakness.

RichN95.

neonriver said:

rick_chasey said:

It's also lost in translation.

The turn of phrase "hoe kan dat nou?!" is basically "how is this possible?" but it doesn't meant that. It's more of an exclamation.

Unsurprisingly Jeremy Whittle has the more suspicious point of view in his review here

https://lacourseentete.com/code-yellow-the-dutch-documentary-following-jumbo-vismas-ill-fated-2020-tour-de-france-reveals-more-about-the-state-of-the-sport-than-perhaps-its-subjects-intended/

Jumbo making insinuations about Pogacar is similar to Trump claiming that the election was fixed.