Eddie Dunbar has travelled this road before. It hasn’t made it any easier, but at least it meant that he recognised all the landmarks along the way. The journey doesn’t seem quite as daunting when you've already travelled to the destination before.
This year, as last, the Giro d’Italia is the centrepiece of Dunbar’s season and this year, as last, his itinerary to the main event had to be hastily rewritten. It didn’t do him much harm in 2023 when he reached Rome in seventh place overall. After some unwanted déjà vu in February, the Irishman will now hope for a more welcome kind of encore in Italy.
