• Women’s race a major target for local Lizzie Deignan
• Yorkshire weather tests cyclists again
“You need to put some whisky in that,” was the dry comment from one passer-by to the tea seller outside the Yorkshire hotel, just across from Betty’s tearoom, close to the finish line for the world road championships this September. The thermometer was dropping, the rain was falling and the race through the Yorkshire spa town was set to be more testing than expected.
The chance to try out the world road race circuit in competition was a big draw for this year’s Tour de Yorkshire, attracting the reigning men’s and women’s Olympic champions, Greg Van Avermaet and Anna Van Der Breggen, and the London 2012 women’s champion, Marianne Vos. Eighty four kilometres from the start in Barnsley, an intermediate sprint in Parliament Street replicated the precise run-in to the finish that will be used in September.
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