Filippo Pozzato maintains that he and the rest of the Italian team raced united behind leader Damiano Cunego at the World Championship road race on Sunday in Mendrisio, Switzerland, despite criticism from two-time winner Gianni Bugno. Bugno led a round of criticism yesterday in Italy’s leading sports paper, La Gazzetta dello Sport . He suggested that the team’s captain, Damiano Cunego, may have lacked the strength to win the Worlds in spite of the hard work carried out by Italy during the race. …

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Bugno critical of Italian Worlds team tactics