Dumoulin: Dauphiné descent was a disgrace

Team Jumbo rider Slovenias Primoz Roglic l wearing the overall leaders yellow jersey climb flanked by his teammate Team Jumbo rider US Sepp Kuss R during the fourth stage of the 72nd edition of the Criterium du Dauphine cycling race 153 km between Ugine and Megeve on August 15 2020 Photo by AnneChristine POUJOULAT AFP Photo by ANNECHRISTINE POUJOULATAFP via Getty Images
Tom Dumoulin leads Primoz Roglic and Sepp Kuss on stage 4 of the Criterium du Dauphine (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)

Tom Dumoulin described the opening descent of the fourth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné as "a disgrace" after his Jumbo-Visma teammate Steven Kruiswijk crashed out, dislocating his shoulder. 

The injury has put Kruiswijk's Tour de France participation in doubt.

Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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