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In this article first-place-classifications before 1919 are also counted as if a yellow jersey was awarded. There have been more yellow jerseys given than there were stages: In 1914, [ 1 ] 1929, [ 2 ] and 1931, [ 3 ] there were multiple cyclists with the same leading time, and the 1988 Tour de France had a "prelude", [ 4 ] an extra stage for a ...
The overall leader at the Vuelta at present wears a red jersey, although previously it has been the "maillot amarillo" (yellow jersey) and the "jersey de oro" (golden jersey). Many other jerseys are colored or designed after a sponsor's logo, and some jerseys change color when a new sponsor is found.
The Belgian rider Philippe Thys, who won the Tour in 1913, 1914 and 1920, recalled in the Belgian magazine Champions et Vedettes when he was 67 that he was awarded a yellow jersey in 1913 when the organiser, Henri Desgrange, asked him to wear a coloured jersey. Thys declined, saying making himself more visible in yellow would encourage other ...
The 2004 design of the yellow jersey for the leader of the general classification, as worn by Robbie McEwen on Stage 3 as leader of the general classification. Since the establishment of the competition in 1903, eight Australians have led the general classification in the Tour de France at the end of a stage during one of the 102 Tours de France.
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The race leader's yellow jersey (French: maillot jaune) was instituted in 1919, reflecting the distinctive yellow newsprint on which L'Auto was published. The European Champion Clubs' Cup , the competition that would later be rebranded as the UEFA Champions League , was also the brainchild of a L'Équipe journalist, Gabriel Hanot .
The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the Seoul Olympic 100m Final, Wisden Sports Writing, June 2012, ISBN 978-1-4081-3595-2; The Bolt Supremacy: Inside Jamaica’s Sprint Factory, Yellow Jersey Press, July 2015, ISBN 978-0224092302; A Journey Through the Cycling Year, Moore, Richard; Birnie, Lionel; Friebe, Daniel.
For a Yellow Jersey (French: ...pour un maillot jaune) is a French 1965 documentary – described as a cinematic tribute – about the 1965 Tour de France. It was made by the French film director, Claude Lelouch. Lelouch is best known as the director of Un Homme et Une Femme (A Man and a Woman in English) in 1966.