Yellow Jersey Archives

One-Day Wonders: The Best Riders to Wear the Yellow Jersey Just Once

June 21, 2022 at 11:35 am6 min reading

Road cycling

The origins of the yellow jersey – the iconic Tour de France leader’s jersey – are often disputed. One rider from the 1913 Tour, Phillipe Thys, told Champions et Vedettes that Henri Desgrange, the father of Le Tour, asked him to wear a yellow jersey…

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The Story of the Tour de France Jerseys: How the Škoda Green Jersey Came to Be

July 5, 2021 at 7:00 am6 min reading

Road cycling

Today it is taken for granted that the leaders of the various classifications of a multistage bicycle race wear coloured jerseys to distinguish them from the other riders. But, of course, that wasn’t always the case. For the first dozen or so years of the…

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The Story of the Škoda Green Jersey and the Legend of Peter Sagan

September 8, 2020 at 10:43 am5 min reading

Road cycling

If you image search the web for Peter Sagan, a 30-year-old Slovak professional racing cyclist, the results will be dominated by the colour green. The reason is obvious – Peter holds the world record for the most Škoda Green Jerseys collected at the Tour de…