Giro d'Italia 2017: Team Sky's Geraint Thomas fit for time trial after crash

Britain's Geraint Thomas is fit and ready for Tuesday's first time trial of this year's Giro d'Italia, after crashing heavily on Sunday.

Thomas' hopes of winning the race were dealt a huge blow when he was caught in a pile-up involving a police motorbike.

Having started Sunday's ninth stage in second place, Team Sky's co-captain is now more than five minutes behind the leader, Movistar's Nairo Quintana.

Welshman Thomas had a precautionary scan on a shoulder injury on Monday.

Having been given the all-clear, the 30-year-old was then able to join his team-mates on a training ride on the Giro's second rest day.

Thomas is 17th overall, five minutes and 14 seconds behind Quintana.

"I'm OK and there's nothing broken. I've had a lot worse injuries and I'll be able to get through it," Thomas told Team Sky's website.

"There's still a lot of racing to be done, whether I go for trying to improve my GC [general classification] position all the way through to Milan, or just try and target a couple of stages.

"I think just take it day by day at the moment, but certainly go 100% tomorrow [in the time trial]."

His co-captain Mikel Landa also had a scan on Monday after being involved in the same crash, and the Spaniard is hopeful of completing the race.

Overall classification after stage nine

1. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar) 42hrs 06mins 09secs

2. Thibaut Pinot (Fra/FDJ) +28secs

3. Tom Dumoulin (Ned/Sunweb) +30secs

4. Bauke Mollema (Ned/Trek) +51secs

5. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Bahrain) +1min 10secs

6. Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita/AG2R) +1min 28secs

7. Ilnur Zakarin (Rus/Katusha) +2mins 28secs

8. Davide Formolo (Ita/Cannondale) +2mins 45secs

9. Andrey Amador (Crc/Movistar) +2mins 53secs

10. Steven Kruijswijk (Ned/LottoNL) +3min 06secs