The Worlds will take place in Italy -
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It will ultimately be Imola.
Initially planned in Switzerland, the World Road Cycling Championships will take place in Italy and should suit punchers like Julian Alaphilippe.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) unveiled the new race route on Wednesday.
The new venue for the 2020 UCI Road World Championships is Imola - Emilia Romagna!
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🗓Sep 24-27th
🌈 Featuring only elites races in the ITT & Road Race.
📄 More info 🔗 https://t.co/mIixxS4QPm#Imola2020 pic.twitter.com/zrqwpyBvSc
- UCI (@UCI_cycling) September 2, 2020
The UCI had to hastily find a new host for the competition, after the withdrawal in August of Aigle-Martigy (Switzerland) because of health restrictions in Switzerland linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.
These restrictions have also forced the organizer to limit the competitions to time trials and road races in the elite men's and women's category, for which “the majority of top athletes are already in Europe, which is not not the case for the youngest (juniors and hopes) ”, according to the UCI.
The F1 circuit in the spotlight
The races will start and end at the Imola motor circuit, which will once again host an F1 Grand Prix (Grand Prix of Emilia-Romagna) in November 2020, after having been the scene of the Grand Prix of San Marino until in 2006. Imola had already hosted World Cycling Championships in 1968 and several times the finish of Giro stages.
The last time the Worlds were held in Italy dates back to 2013, in Florence.
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