Joe Dombrowski has had a good week at the Giro d’Italia. After a 40th place finish in the first stage of the week on Tuesday and finishing in the peloton on Thursday Dombrowski had his best day of the competition when he finished 16th on Friday in stage 13. Dombrowski was the last of 14 riders to finish 1:17 behind the winner and has now moved up to be the top American overall in 41st place, 44:46 back. Nathan Brown was 55th and Chad Haga was 60th to give the US three in the top 60 for first time since stage four. Brown stayed in 50th overall despite being passed by Dombrowski and is now 55:51 back. Haga moved up to 87th.

Saturday will be the first mountain stage, 130 miles in length.

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