Giro d’Italia: Dunbar and Healy keep their powder dry for stiffer tests as Dainese takes 17th stage

Healy took over the King of the Mountains competition lead on Tuesday and had a quiet day on Wednesday as no climbing primes were on offer. He stays on 164 points as a result, 20 ahead of closest rival.

Friday’s stage is even harder, taking the riders over four climbs before a final battle on the gruelling 2,307 metre-high Tre Cime di Lavaredo. Saturday’s penultimate stage is a 18.6 kilometre individual time-trial, of which the final eight kilometres is a category one climb. Meanwhile, the team for this week’s Paracycling World Cup in Huntsvilla-Alabama has been confirmed as unchanged from the line-up that competed in the Ostend round earlier this month. Tandem World Cup leaders Katie-George Dunlevy and Linda Kelly are hoping to seal series victory, having won the time-trial and taken bronze in the road race in that last round.

Damien Vereker and Mitchell McLaughlin compete in the men’s tandem races, while Ronan Grimes , Chris Burns , Declan Slevin and Richael Timothy will also be in action. They will be joined by independent entrant Allistair MacSorely, who is in the H4 category.

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