Tour of Britain yellow jersey.

[oldroadman]

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.

Just be aware that national champion jerseys can be almost any design - often quite colourful and based round the national flag (USA have the stars and stripes and no white at all, for instance, Kazak national champ is yellow/blue -almost like Astana!), so white base will usually be a world champ, or classification leader, or Aussie champ, or .......enjoy! Just to confuse the issue, in a stage race classification jersey takes precedence over all others. So a world champ leading a race will wear leader jersey, not the rainbow jersey (which bl....y commentators will call "stripes" when they are horizontal bands or hoops - stripes are vertical). Being an old has-been makes for pedantry!

 

[martint235]

Just be aware that national champion jerseys can be almost any design - often quite colourful and based round the national flag (USA have the stars and stripes and no white at all, for instance, Kazak national champ is yellow/blue -almost like Astana!), so white base will usually be a world champ, or classification leader, or Aussie champ, or .......enjoy! Just to confuse the issue, in a stage race classification jersey takes precedence over all others. So a world champ leading a race will wear leader jersey, not the rainbow jersey (which bl....y commentators will call "stripes" when they are horizontal bands or hoops - stripes are vertical). Being an old has-been makes for pedantry!

Strange that. Can't think how that happened.

I seem to remember comments during the TdF where Nibali got postive reviews for effectively overlaying the flag from his national champs jersey onto his team jersey thereby avoiding all this white confusion. So Kennaugh would have a Sky jersey with his stripes on the black rather than a white jersey. Wouldn't help in the likelihood that the Kazak champ rides for Astana though.

 

[oldroadman]

Strange that. Can't think how that happened.

I seem to remember comments during the TdF where Nibali got postive reviews for effectively overlaying the flag from his national champs jersey onto his team jersey thereby avoiding all this white confusion. So Kennaugh would have a Sky jersey with his stripes on the black rather than a white jersey. Wouldn't help in the likelihood that the Kazak champ rides for Astana though.

Wrong about the British jersey. the design of the national champ jersey is laid down by the federation of the country. Then riders can place their team name in certain positions on that, there are strict rules about what and where, etc. Otherwise suppose a Sky rider is national champ this year, then a Raleigh wins next time. The jersey design does not change, only the sponsor panels. Pedant mode on - And they are bands or hoops, not stripes (as in, Newcastle FC had black and white stripes, QPR had blue and white hoops). I blame the poor standards of English used by commentators, fine being multilingual, but you should be able to work out your native language as well! - pedant mode off.
I'm off out to get a bit of air now, sun shining and the lanes call.

 

[martint235]

Wrong about the British jersey. the design of the national champ jersey is laid down by the federation of the country. Then riders can place their team name in certain positions on that, there are strict rules about what and where, etc. Otherwise suppose a Sky rider is national champ this year, then a Raleigh wins next time. The jersey design does not change, only the sponsor panels. Pedant mode on - And they are bands or hoops, not stripes (as in, Newcastle FC had black and white stripes, QPR had blue and white hoops). I blame the poor standards of English used by commentators, fine being multilingual, but you should be able to work out your native language as well! - pedant mode off.
I'm off out to get a bit of air now, sun shining and the lanes call.

So how do you explain Nibali wearing an Astana jersey with the Italian flag on it?

And how does it matter which team they ride for? You just put whatever emblem your national federation like on your team jersey?

And I can understand why QPR have hoops as they encircle the body, the colours on the British Champ jersey don't encircle the body. Still, your pedantry has earned just reward.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Perhaps for the UK its gold not yellow

Done this. It's now the Aviva Yellow Jersey. In the heyday of the milk race, there were milkmen delivering gold top bottles to your door, though.

 

[suzeworld]

I think they refer to the ToB leader's jersey as the Gold Jersey. No idea why.

I seem to remember this in the past ..