Italian men's national team recons 2019 Yorkshire road Worlds course

Members of the Italian men's national road squad performed a reconnaissance ride of parts of September's 2019 UCI Road World Championships course in Yorkshire, in the UK, on Monday, with recent Tour of Flanders winner Alberto Bettiol (EF Education First) declaring it "more difficult than the Bergen Worlds course in 2017".

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