According to French website Direct Velo, Yorkshire will not be successful in its bid to host the 2018 World Cycling Championships.
Yorkshire, along with the country of Colombia and Innsbruck in Austria are understood to have all bid for the championships with the UCI saying that they will be announcing the bid winner in the coming weeks, although they have not said when.
'According to DirectVelo, the Innsbruck course will be one for the climbers and will contain an eight-kilometre climb around 20km outside of Innsbruck. It reports that the there will be somewhere between 4,000 and 4,500 metres of altitude gain across the elite men's course. The time trials could also feature some steep ascents.
Kitzbühel, Kufstein and other cities in the Tirol region, where Innsbruck is the capital, may also be used.'