Ben Healy's spectacular progression in 2023 continued apace in the Giro d'Italia on Saturday, as barely a week into his first-ever Grand Tour, the 22-year-old notched up his first-ever stage win in a WorldTour level event with a 52-kilometre solo attack.
When the EF Education-EasyPost racer disappeared up the road from a day-long break with the hardest segment of the hilly 207-kilometre stage yet to come, it seemed as if the Irishman had set himself an almost impossibly ambitious task.
