The Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad noted that for the first time since 2012, there was no Dutch winner of a Grand Tour stage this season.

However, the public's disappointment should be tempered by the fact that the Dutch WorldTour team Jumbo Visma won the Vuelta a España for the second year in a row, thanks to Slovenia's Primoš Roglic, who finished second in the Tour de France in September.

In an article published in AD.nl after the final stage of the Vuelta in Madrid on Sunday, Bauke Mollema's stage win in the Vuelta in 2013 (for the Dutch team Belkin, which later became Jumbo-Visma) has put the Netherlands back on track since The report states that through the season, Dutch riders have won at least two stages every year through the Tour, Vuelta, and Giro d'Italia.

In 2014, Pieter Weening won the Giro and Lars Boom won a stage at the Tour, and in 2015, Danny van Poppel, Bert-Jan Lindemann, and Tom Dumoulin won four Vuelta victories.

Dumoulin then took another stage win at the 2016 Giro and two more at the Tour that same year. Dumoulin then won two races in the 2017 Giro, Jos van Emden won the final time trial of the Giro, and Morema and Dylan Groenewegen won the Tour.

Tom Dumoulin is the most successful Dutch Grand Tour stage winner since the barren 2012, with nine stage wins in three weeks of racing and the overall win in the 2017 Giro, making him the first Dutchman to win a Grand Tour since Joop Zoetemelk in the 1980 Tour de France He became the first Dutchman to win a Grand Tour since Joop Zoetemelk in the 1980 Tour de France.

Since then, Dumoulin's fortunes may have waned a bit, but he also took a stage win in the 2018 Giro, ultimately losing to Team Sky's Chris Froome by just 46 seconds and failing to defend his title. And at the 2018 Tour, the Dutchman took a stage win in the Grand Tour, while Groenewegen won two more sprints.

At last year's Tour, Groenewegen and Jumbo-Visma teammate Mike Tunissen each won a stage, while Dečuninck-Quick Step's Fabio Jacobsen won two stages in the Vuelta.

It would be very reasonable to expect Jacobsen to have at least one more stage win in this year's Grand Tour, given that the Dutch sprinter won two on his debut in the 2019 Vuelta. However, a terrible crash at the Tour de Pollogne in early August immediately ended the 24-year-old's 2020 season.

The Netherlands' lack of a stage win in 2020 should nevertheless be kept in perspective.

Primoš Roglic is not Dutch, but his 2019 Vuelta overall win, successful title defense this year, and second place in this year's Tour (the Slovenian only lost the yellow jersey to compatriot Tadej Pogachar (UAE Team Emirates)) are It has been a very successful season for Jambovisma.

The efforts of director Richard Plagge and his team over the past eight years, including clever signings such as Wout Van Aert in early 2019 and Dumoulin this season, for example, usurped the Ineos Grenadiers, which was almost unreachable in its previous incarnation of Team Sky and Team Ineos and propelled the team to the enviable position of being the best stage race team in the world today.

The Dutch rider will once again win a Grand Tour stage, and in conjunction with Jumbo-Visma's continued GC ambitions, the Netherlands will remain one of the leading cycling nations in the world.