Cycling-Revenge is sweet for Danish team pursuiters

Cycling - UCI World Championships 2023 - Emirates Arena, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - August 5, 2023 Denmark celebrate after winning the men's elite team pursuit gold medal race against Italy REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska

GLASGOW (Reuters) - Two years to the day after suffering Olympic heartache, Denmark's Lasse Norman Leth and his team pursuit squad gained some revenge over their Italian tormentors at the UCI World Championships on Saturday.

Leth, together with Niklas Larsen, Rasmus Pedersen and newcomer Carl-Frederik Bevort, delivered a perfect ride in Glasgow to regain the world title they won in 2020 in Berlin.