Dylan Groenewegen Quietly Returns to Racing after 9 Month Suspension

Dutch sprinter to returns to racing after serving nine-month suspension after crash with Fabio Jakobsen at the Tour of Poland

Groenewegen says he will need to reacquaint himself with contesting sprints again, “We talked about that well. A lot has happened and we will take that into account when I return,” he said.

“Of course I hope to be able to sprint for victories again, but the most important thing is that I can find my place in the peloton again. It doesn’t feel good that I deviated from my line. I also wonder how this was possible.

“I certainly blame myself for that. You try to reconstruct what you have thought in full sprint. You can look at it so often, it is always very shocking to see. The impact of the fall is enormous, especially due to the high speed of more than eighty kilometers per hour. It happened unconsciously and I feel very sorry about that.”

Groenewegen will be at the Tour of Hungary on May 12-16, followed by the Tour of Norway  on 19-24 May .In June, he will race Rund um Köln and the ZLM Tour before the Dutch national road race championships.

From then on it's planned he'll be at the Tour of Wallonia, Tour of Denmark, and the EuroEyes Cyclassics Hamburg.

Groenewegen’s most high-profile race of the year will be at the BinckBank Tour in September, before he closes out his season with Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen, Sparkassen Münsterland Giro and the Tour of Guangxi.