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Ben Healy finished eighth at Grand Prix de Montréal on September 14 — his first top-10 result since March. Seven months of nothing, and it reappears on the exact circuit hosting Worlds, two weeks before the race he's called his biggest dream.
A sacral fracture at Itzulia Basque Country wiped out his spring, and through the 2026 Tour de France he was visible in breakaways but never sharp enough to contend. That gap makes the Montréal result read less like a rider clicking back into form and more like the calendar handing him a circuit at the right moment. Healy has said «The World Championships is probably the race that I dream of the most to win» — one good race on the course doesn't confirm that dream, it just keeps it alive for two more weeks.
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