Jumbo Visma's Tom Dumoulin (currently riding with team and race leader Primoz Roglic at the Tour de France) has not ruled out the possibility of competing in the elite men's individual time trial at the World Championships on September 25.The 2017 TT World The champion says it all depends on his physical condition after the Tour on September 20, and that is all that occupies his thoughts for the time being.

As the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad noted on Friday, Dumoulin has not competed in a time trial since the Criterium du Dauphiné in June 2019, the final stage of the Tour de France's La Planche des Belles Fils mountain The time trial should give him a good idea of what he is capable of.

"If I do well in that time trial, all of a sudden I might think, 'Why not?'" he said of competing in the world championship TT on the 31.7-km flat course in Imola, Italy, on September 25. 'I haven't done a lot of time trials lately, haven't worked on them at all.'

The men's world championship time trial was originally scheduled to take place on September 20. However, due to a coronavirus outbreak, Swiss government regulations prohibited the event from being held in Italy, so the venue was changed to Italy, and only the elite men's and women's time trial and road race will be held in Imola, with no junior or under-23 events.

"It depends on how you get out of the Tour, but it is an option," Dumoulin told AD.nl. 'I'm so busy with the Tour that everything else takes a back seat. How do you feel afterwards? Maybe I will be completely exhausted from the Tour, and then there will be no point in going to the World Championships time trial."

On Friday's 13th stage from Chatel to Puy Marie, Dumoulin's Jambovisma teammate Roglic extended his overall lead in the yellow jersey, with the Slovenian now 44 seconds behind UAE Team Emirates' Tadej Pogacar and 59 seconds ahead of Tour champion Egan Bernal of Ineos Grenadiers.

"Ineos is also here to win the Tour," Dumoulin told Dutch public broadcaster NOS. 'They tried to do something. But in the end our team and Primorsch were stronger.

Dumoulin set the pace at the front of the main group over the Col de Neronne, the final climb, and finished the stage in 23rd place, 1:10 behind Roglic The 29-year-old Dutchman is now in 13th place overall, 4:32 behind the team leader.