please log in to view this image Yorkshire will host the 2019 Road World Championships, marking the return of cycling’s showcase event to Britain after a 37-year gap, with a £27m budget to include a £15m “transformational” investment in new facilities across the UK. Harrogate is one venue which is in the frame as a possible “hub” for the nine days of racing for five categories, junior men and women, elite men and women and under-23 men. To celebrate the arrival of what could be an even bigger event than the 2014 Tour de France start in Leeds, York and Harrogate, the First Direct Arena, the Trinity Leeds shopping centre and the Clifford Tower in York were set to be illuminated in rainbow stripes on Wednesday night, a nod to the rainbow jerseys which will be awarded during the 12 events. Appropriately the announcement came in the week that Yorkshire’s own world champion, Lizzie Deignan (née Armitstead) will defend her title in the women’s road race in Doha. “We will use some of the Tour de France and Tour de Yorkshire routes but it won’t be possible to go to every town, city and village in the region,” said Sir Gary Verity, head of Welcome to Yorkshire. “However, the objective is to visit every part of Yorkshire, north, east, west and south.” The region’s hosting of the Tour in 2014 has been followed by two successful editions of the three-day Tour de Yorkshire run by Amaury Sport Organisation. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...erm=194557&subid=10107068&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
this is good news. I took my bike up to the Dales over the summer: bloody hard work and a shock to the system after the total flatness of Cambridgeshire. for the Wordl Championships they should have the tagline "Riding through the Ridings"
Will they be visiting the only city in the eastern part of Yorkshire? Or will the improvements for City Of Culture still going on preclude it?
