Tour of Britain yellow jersey.

[deptfordmarmoset]

Just clever IMHO

The reason I wasn't sure was because I didn't see it. Now I know it's there, it is clever, for sure. But it was a bit of a Slowgo for me.

 

[Bollo]

You had me worried for a moment there. The official web site calls it the Aviva Yellow Jersey.
http://www.tourofbritain.co.uk/about/jerseys.php#.Ve3q_vZViYE

It used to be the IG Markets Gold Jersey. Maybe they've switched to calling it yellow to match the Aviva sponsorship. I'm colourblind, so it'll always be the greenyyellowyorangymeh jersey to me.

 

[martint235]

Just to go back to the OP the leader of the Dauphine also wears a yellow jersey. I'm fairly sure it's the colour for a lot of the *not grand* tours (Paris - Nice is another example). The Giro pink jersey allegedly follows the TdF idea and La Gazzetto Dello Sport is printed on pink paper.

 

[SWSteve]

I'd like them to wear a mirror Jersey, just so we can spot them

 

[oldroadman]

Yellow was the original colour of L'Auto, the first organisers of the TdF, pink was and still is the colour of La Gazzetta who started the Giro. Quite why Vuelta is red is a mystery, but I'm sure the organisers have a reason, most likely a sponsor colour. Somewhere in my mind is that it was once blue. And for the avoidance of doubt, it's JAUNE (yellow), not jeune (which means young/youth, depends on context, as for example une jeune fille, young girl/lady).
I'm not sure you can copyright a colour, but I have heard that the organisers of the London Nocturne have world wide copyrighted the word nocturne in connection with cycling, which seems a bit excessive, but there you go, welcome to the professional and commercial world. Bit of a blow if you were running nocturnes before they started their races!

 

[themosquitoking]

Yellow was the original colour of L'Auto, the first organisers of the TdF, pink was and still is the colour of La Gazzetta who started the Giro. Quite why Vuelta is red is a mystery, but I'm sure the organisers have a reason, most likely a sponsor colour. Somewhere in my mind is that it was once blue. And for the avoidance of doubt, it's JAUNE (yellow), not jeune (which means young/youth, depends on context, as for example une jeune fille, young girl/lady).
I'm not sure you can copyright a colour, but I have heard that the organisers of the London Nocturne have world wide copyrighted the word nocturne in connection with cycling, which seems a bit excessive, but there you go, welcome to the professional and commercial world. Bit of a blow if you were running nocturnes before they started their races!

Are these commonly used words?

 

[Legs]

Quite why Vuelta is red is a mystery, but I'm sure the organisers have a reason, most likely a sponsor colour. Somewhere in my mind is that it was once blue.

It was most recently a deep orangey-yellow colour before it changed to red in 2010.

 

[uncle_adolph]

The Vuelta always used to be yellow.....

 

[Elybazza61]

My main problem with it is it looks too much like a Naaridge shirt with the Aviva sponsorship

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

My main problem with it is it looks too much like a Naaridge shirt with the Aviva sponsorship

It's those white national champion rainbow jerseys that really confuse me.

 

[oldroadman]

It's those white national champion rainbow jerseys that really confuse me.

Order of jersey priority, race leader/classification leader, then champion jerseys. If you are lucky enough to be world champion and national champion at the same time, world takes preference, as might be expected. None of which I have ever had. I just think it's very sad to see people riding about in world or national kit - usually overweight! Those jereseys should never be sold, they have to be earned by hard graft, talent, and a bit of luck (or lack of bad), and should be treasured, not pottered round the local Strava segment by people who know no better.

 

[oldroadman]

It's those white national champion rainbow jerseys that really confuse me.

The rainbow jersey is world champion. There is only one. National champion jerseys are various designs, the GB one is white with blue and red hoops. Others vary, but most reflect national colours in some way. In a stage race, a white(ish) jersey is sometimes awarded for a specific classification. These are not standard and organisers decide the design. That help a bit?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

The rainbow jersey is world champion. There is only one. National champion jerseys are various designs, the GB one is white with blue and red hoops. Others vary, but most reflect national colours in some way. In a stage race, a white(ish) jersey is sometimes awarded for a specific classification. These are not standard and organisers decide the design. That help a bit?

Thanks for the nat/world distinction, which I hadn't fully grasped. It's my observational skills letting me down really, because peering through glasses at a live stream, I can't see whether it's a cyclist from a team with predominantly white jerseys, or national/world ones, or the young rider's. Much of the time I can deduce who it is - if there's a train of Sky riders with a white jersey in the middle, then I know it's Kennaugh - but I can't always work it out.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

...peering through glasses at a live stream, I can't see.

 

[mick1836]

Perhaps for the UK its gold not yellow