Ilnur Zakarin hass told Cyclingnews that he is ready to compete in the next moutain stages. The Katusha rider, who crashed two times in Sunday's individual time trial, explained no longer suffers from his injuries.

The Russian rider now lies in 7th place overall, 2:25 off maglia rosa Bob Jungels (Etixx-QuickStep). "I think I'm recovered well and for the next climbing stages, I should be ok. Of course I was a little bit disappointed on Sunday because I wanted to do a really good time trial. I had a couple of crashes although they weren't because I took too many risks on the course. It was because I couldn't hear the radio too well during the time trial, so I didn't have all the information on the corners. That was the problem."

The next three days will offer the first big indications of who’s going to win the Giro d’Italia as the riders face three consecutive days in the mountains.