Tom Dumoulin: The plan is to win UAE Tour so we need to attack Roglic

Tom Dumoulin says that he's ready to go on the attack at the UAE Tour in an attempt to unseat Primoz Roglic from the race lead after Jumbo-Visma beat Team Sunweb in the opening team time trial.

Dumoulin and co-leader Wilco Kelderman sit just seven seconds behind Roglic with two key mountain stages to come.

"The plan is to try and win the race so we need to attack Roglic for sure," said Dumoulin. "We're in a good position, we’re in the position to attack, but it all depends on legs eventually. It’s definitely a good position for Wilco and me to build from there."

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Coming so close to the victory, it would be easy to see why the former team time trial world champions may have been disappointed with the result but that was not the case. There was plenty of back slapping and congratulating as the riders arrived back at the Team Sunweb van to clean off after a hard effort.

With some strong time trialling talent in Jumbo-Visma, Dumoulin was not surprised to see the Dutch squad at the top of the standings and is pleased to see how this team was going in their first team time trial of the season.

"In the end, we were missing out on a little bit of firepower but, all in all, I think that we can be happy especially with a young team like we have here. We have a couple of guys who have almost never done a TTT so it’s very satisfying," he explained.

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