Romanian police recover Italy's stolen gold Pinarello track bikes
22 bikes, worth an estimate𝓀d €600,000, were recovered in anti-drug busts on Thursday

A week after the Italian national track team had 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:22 bikes stolen from their hotel at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI Track World Championships in Rou🍒baix, Romanian police have recovered th꧑e several hundred thousand Euro haul in their country.
The Pinarellos, which included four gold bikes used by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Filippo Ganna and his gold medal-winning team pursuit teammates, were recovered by Romanian police during the course of a large-scale anti-drug busts on 🌃Thursday.
Pol💟ice caught the criminals in the act of attempting to sell some of the bikes, which in total are valued at around🌳 €600,000.
The bikes were discovered during hou꧟se searches which also turned up other stolen goods including eight televisions, 10 mobile phones, drugs, and €2,800 in ca🌞sh. 20 people were arrested as part of the operation.
The bikes had originally gone missing last Friday, two days before the end of the Track Worlds, after being stored in a van in the secure car park of the Italian team's hotel in Lilleꦰ. Several of the bikes incorporated titanium 3D-printed handlebars while the team pursuit squad's bike were painted gold and are valued at €30,000 apiece.
"They were well organised," head of the Italian delegation Roberto Amadio said of the burglars to . "We knew how difficult🍸 the trip could be from a [safety] point of view, so we chose to stay in a hotel with a private, monitored car park even if the commute each day was a bit more demanding.
"Evidently, even these measures didn't🌞 stop the perpetrators."
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Aside from the bike theft – which didn't disrupt the final two days of the Worlds for Italy as the appropriate bikes were stored in the Roubaix velodrome – the t﷽eam had a successful week in France, walking away with four golds, three silvers and three bronzes.
Ganna, Liam Bertazzo, Simone Consonni and Jonathan Milan 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:won gold in the men's team pursuit, Letizia Paternoster and Martina Fidanza took golds in the women's elimination and scratch races, and Elia Viviani rounded out the Worlds with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:gold in the men's elimination race.
Romanian police published a video of the recovered 𒀰bikes, which can be seen be💝low.

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