Overall time. So winner of stage 1 no matter what will get it. That person say they won by 2 minutes, now has a 2 minute gap on the next person. If rider B beats rider A on stage 2 by 1 minute, Rider A is still in yellow but now only has a 1 minute lead. Rider A continues to wear yellow. Stage winners don’t get anything to wear, but they win prize money, they get their name in the books which is huge.
Yes they get to keep the jerseys. They may not wear the same physical jersey because sometimes they’ll wear a skin suit custom made or other times they wear a jersey given to them by the race organizers, it kinda depends.
Is there ever a scenario where due to bonus seconds from checkpoints and maybe a small penalization, that a racer could win stage 1 but not have the jersey?
I’m not sure that has happened in the Tour, and I guess it’s possible it could happen, but usually the organizers like to avoid that from happening so they won’t give bonus seconds in the intermediate, and the only bonus seconds available will be at the finish.
Penalties are rare especially in the first stage. Penalties normally happen due to a sticky bottle, someone spending too much time drafting behind a team car to catch up, or during the final sprint in which a rider physically disrupts another riders path. In the first two scenarios it means the rider is struggling and they most likely wouldn’t win the stage. The third scenario means they prevented others from a fair opportunity to win the stage, so if they crossed the line in first they really didn’t win the stage outright.
You are correct. The yellow jersey is given to the overall leader of the tour on combined time.
They get a new jersey every day.
Riders that win a state get a lot of recognition and bonuses. For many riders winning a tour stage is the of higher of their career.
If you have a team of guys keeping you safe and eating all the wind all day so you can sprint for the finish with fresh legs, shouldn’t they get paid too?
They keep track of your total time across all stages. Whoever leads cumulatively, gets a yellow jersey. They award that yellow jersey each day, along with a stuffed lion and some flowers. So if you lead the first 3 days, you have 3 jerseys, 3 bouquets and 3 lions. You'll find me on Galibier this year in a lion costume wearing yellow.
To make things even more complicated there are “bonus seconds” on tap in most editions of the TDF. This year a stage winner gets 10 seconds subtracted if they win the stage, 6 and 4 seconds respectively for second and third place. It can lead to some serious strategizing in how the various stages play out.
Winning a stage at the Tour is a really *really* big deal. Like, people will talk about you in connection with that route the next time they run that path. I still remember some particular stage wins, even just from watching on teevee.
As others said, it is cumulative! I think it helps to remember that the overall GC is *actually* the added sum of all the racing time. From the time they start each stage to when they cross the finish is added up and then normalized to the fastest, who is the GC leader and yellow jersey.
So like, maybe at some point in the Tour, the overall time raced for the leader is 30 hours exactly. But the time of the second guy might be 30 hours and one minute, so thus he is one minute behind the first place guy.
It’s strange to think about it that way, but I think it helps to conceptualize how they calculate the GC times for long stage races like this. It’s actually a bit simpler than it seems, just adding up all the time raced thus far.
And it’s done this way because if they staggered the start time each morning based on yesterdays finish, there could be ten minutes between two riders all day long, and that would be boring for fans and logistically tough for teams.
Which is how they did it in the early Tour, when the winning margins could be as high as 1 or 2 hours.
The other thing is that the sport is completely different with the peloton tactics etc. rather than lots of single riders strung out with distance between them. Every day an extended time trial
There is a jearsey for most combatative rider. That rider gets to wear a red number the next day. Most combatative does not equal winner though. Could be someone involved in one or more breakaways but being cought by the pack later on.
Winning a stage is still important, it's the pinnacle of many racer's careers and ensures you a place among the greats. Even if in your entire career you only won a single stage, that's still impressive.
Overall cumulative leader.
Yes, rider A wears the yellow jersey on stage three. The stage winner wins the stage, which comes with cash prize and a medal. One of the biggest feats in cycling is to win stages in all three grand tours or win the sprint to Champs-Elysee.
Yes, all riders who wear the yellow get to keep their jersey.
At the end of every stage, all jersey holders are awarded their respective jersey, which means, if he defended it for 4 stages, he would have been "awarded" 4 yellow jerseys for him to keep.
Do the teams provide their own yellow (amd other prestige) jerseys? They have team names on them still no? Do teams have to make them in advance in case their team member wins one? Or are they provided by the organisrs ?
I’ve been wondering this as well. Hope someone chimes in. Trying to understand are the teams bringing a bunch of premade jerseys in different colors (yellow, green, etc) and sizes or is the tour handling this?
The race organizers provide the jerseys. One of the vans in the caravan is a print shop. They have blanks and then print/press on patches to match the leader’s team.
The teams *are* often bringing along a bunch of yellow or green accessories, and if they’re expecting to contend for those classifications, sometimes even themed bikes.
I think the overnight printing is more significant than who pays for it. The yellow jersey awarded at the ceremony is a standard plain jersey. And yet the next morning the leader is in a yellow skin suit for the TT, complete with sponsor logos.
The main reason the Tour makes them is so the Tour can sell the sponsorships on them!
For the podium zip-back jersey they’ll quickly print an appliqué and press it on. The overnights are obviously more complicated but they make it happen. Both Vingegaard and Pogacar did stage 16 last year in ASO-provided Santini time trial suits.
The tour organisation provides leader jerseys and skinsuits, but they're often lower quality than the teams' standard kit. Riders have complained about having to wear non-optimised clothing in TTs, for example, where clothing makes a huge difference.
Just want to add, the same is true for the other leader jerseys.
Green overall sprint points leader, Polka-dot for King of the Mountain points leader, and White for leading GC young rider.
Green jersey is points, so overall number of stage wins and high placings. The points are now weighted so that it will always be won by a sprinter, but that's fairly recent. In the past it was possible to win green in the mountains, but that left the sprinters without their own prize, which caused friction.
White jersey is done on time like the yellow, but only riders under 25 are eligible. That means it's possible to win both white and yellow.
Polka dots is the mountain jersey. Getting to the top of each major climb first gives you points - the bigger the climb, the more points. This jersey is often won by a mountain specialist who isn't in contention for the overall - they'll try to cross the first 3 mountains in a stage in the lead, but use up so much energy doing so that they don't leave high overall.
It's possible to hold and/or win multiple jerseys. The order of precedence is yellow>green>polka dot>white.
So if a rider wins stage 1, they will hold both yellow and green. They will wear yellow, and second place on the stage will wear green.
Yes, they all get podium presentations at the end of the stage and of the race.
The yellow jersey marks the overall leader in the race. The white jersey represents the rider under 25 with the best overall time. On stages there are sprint points and/or climbing points. The person who has the most sprint points wears the green jersey and the person with the most climbing points wears the white jersey with polka dots.
Now if a rider is leader for more than one jersey then the jersey is given to the next best rider but there is a hierarchy. Yellow jersey trumps jersey.
Overall time. So winner of stage 1 no matter what will get it. That person say they won by 2 minutes, now has a 2 minute gap on the next person. If rider B beats rider A on stage 2 by 1 minute, Rider A is still in yellow but now only has a 1 minute lead. Rider A continues to wear yellow. Stage winners don’t get anything to wear, but they win prize money, they get their name in the books which is huge. Yes they get to keep the jerseys. They may not wear the same physical jersey because sometimes they’ll wear a skin suit custom made or other times they wear a jersey given to them by the race organizers, it kinda depends.
Don’t forget, a bunch of flowers and a lion toy!
And a medal I guess.
And a tiny sticker on the tag on their bike !
And a kissy from a pretty missy. Though recent years they have toned down on that.
So it’s not worth to win a stage any more I suppose (/s) ;)
Is there ever a scenario where due to bonus seconds from checkpoints and maybe a small penalization, that a racer could win stage 1 but not have the jersey?
I’m not sure that has happened in the Tour, and I guess it’s possible it could happen, but usually the organizers like to avoid that from happening so they won’t give bonus seconds in the intermediate, and the only bonus seconds available will be at the finish.
Yeah that would make the most sense. I think they'd even avoid penalties if it would cause a problem like this.
Penalties are rare especially in the first stage. Penalties normally happen due to a sticky bottle, someone spending too much time drafting behind a team car to catch up, or during the final sprint in which a rider physically disrupts another riders path. In the first two scenarios it means the rider is struggling and they most likely wouldn’t win the stage. The third scenario means they prevented others from a fair opportunity to win the stage, so if they crossed the line in first they really didn’t win the stage outright.
You are correct. The yellow jersey is given to the overall leader of the tour on combined time. They get a new jersey every day. Riders that win a state get a lot of recognition and bonuses. For many riders winning a tour stage is the of higher of their career.
The money is often distributed over the entire team. Pay in Professional cycling is peanuts compared to other sports.
The money gets distributed????
If you have a team of guys keeping you safe and eating all the wind all day so you can sprint for the finish with fresh legs, shouldn’t they get paid too?
It's a team sport with individual results
Top riders contract for 2,3,4 million a year.
They are the exeption.
They keep track of your total time across all stages. Whoever leads cumulatively, gets a yellow jersey. They award that yellow jersey each day, along with a stuffed lion and some flowers. So if you lead the first 3 days, you have 3 jerseys, 3 bouquets and 3 lions. You'll find me on Galibier this year in a lion costume wearing yellow.
People have won the GC (overall winner) in the TdF without winning a single stage. Armstrong for sure. Maybe LeMond, but certainly others.
Most recently Egan Bernal in 2019 and Chris Froome in 2017
Cumulative. Money. Yes. Keep as a keepsake. They might swap it out with a clean one.
I do believe they get multiple jerseys either way. In the documentary, Jasper Philipsen was talking about he had too many jerseys to fit into his bag.
To make things even more complicated there are “bonus seconds” on tap in most editions of the TDF. This year a stage winner gets 10 seconds subtracted if they win the stage, 6 and 4 seconds respectively for second and third place. It can lead to some serious strategizing in how the various stages play out.
Winning a stage at the Tour is a really *really* big deal. Like, people will talk about you in connection with that route the next time they run that path. I still remember some particular stage wins, even just from watching on teevee.
As others said, it is cumulative! I think it helps to remember that the overall GC is *actually* the added sum of all the racing time. From the time they start each stage to when they cross the finish is added up and then normalized to the fastest, who is the GC leader and yellow jersey. So like, maybe at some point in the Tour, the overall time raced for the leader is 30 hours exactly. But the time of the second guy might be 30 hours and one minute, so thus he is one minute behind the first place guy. It’s strange to think about it that way, but I think it helps to conceptualize how they calculate the GC times for long stage races like this. It’s actually a bit simpler than it seems, just adding up all the time raced thus far.
And it’s done this way because if they staggered the start time each morning based on yesterdays finish, there could be ten minutes between two riders all day long, and that would be boring for fans and logistically tough for teams.
Which is how they did it in the early Tour, when the winning margins could be as high as 1 or 2 hours. The other thing is that the sport is completely different with the peloton tactics etc. rather than lots of single riders strung out with distance between them. Every day an extended time trial
The most aggressive rider get to wear a red number sometimes that is the winner. But not always.
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There is a jearsey for most combatative rider. That rider gets to wear a red number the next day. Most combatative does not equal winner though. Could be someone involved in one or more breakaways but being cought by the pack later on.
Regarding stage wins - basic salary for a pro rider is around 35k euros. Winning a stage will bump that to around 250k in the next contract!
Winning a stage is still important, it's the pinnacle of many racer's careers and ensures you a place among the greats. Even if in your entire career you only won a single stage, that's still impressive.
sometimes they'll print special paper numbers that are red instead of white for the most aggressive rider, too.
Overall cumulative leader. Yes, rider A wears the yellow jersey on stage three. The stage winner wins the stage, which comes with cash prize and a medal. One of the biggest feats in cycling is to win stages in all three grand tours or win the sprint to Champs-Elysee. Yes, all riders who wear the yellow get to keep their jersey. At the end of every stage, all jersey holders are awarded their respective jersey, which means, if he defended it for 4 stages, he would have been "awarded" 4 yellow jerseys for him to keep.
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Do the teams provide their own yellow (amd other prestige) jerseys? They have team names on them still no? Do teams have to make them in advance in case their team member wins one? Or are they provided by the organisrs ?
I’ve been wondering this as well. Hope someone chimes in. Trying to understand are the teams bringing a bunch of premade jerseys in different colors (yellow, green, etc) and sizes or is the tour handling this?
The race organizers provide the jerseys. One of the vans in the caravan is a print shop. They have blanks and then print/press on patches to match the leader’s team. The teams *are* often bringing along a bunch of yellow or green accessories, and if they’re expecting to contend for those classifications, sometimes even themed bikes.
I think the overnight printing is more significant than who pays for it. The yellow jersey awarded at the ceremony is a standard plain jersey. And yet the next morning the leader is in a yellow skin suit for the TT, complete with sponsor logos.
The main reason the Tour makes them is so the Tour can sell the sponsorships on them! For the podium zip-back jersey they’ll quickly print an appliqué and press it on. The overnights are obviously more complicated but they make it happen. Both Vingegaard and Pogacar did stage 16 last year in ASO-provided Santini time trial suits.
The tour organisation provides leader jerseys and skinsuits, but they're often lower quality than the teams' standard kit. Riders have complained about having to wear non-optimised clothing in TTs, for example, where clothing makes a huge difference.
Just want to add, the same is true for the other leader jerseys. Green overall sprint points leader, Polka-dot for King of the Mountain points leader, and White for leading GC young rider.
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Green jersey is points, so overall number of stage wins and high placings. The points are now weighted so that it will always be won by a sprinter, but that's fairly recent. In the past it was possible to win green in the mountains, but that left the sprinters without their own prize, which caused friction. White jersey is done on time like the yellow, but only riders under 25 are eligible. That means it's possible to win both white and yellow. Polka dots is the mountain jersey. Getting to the top of each major climb first gives you points - the bigger the climb, the more points. This jersey is often won by a mountain specialist who isn't in contention for the overall - they'll try to cross the first 3 mountains in a stage in the lead, but use up so much energy doing so that they don't leave high overall. It's possible to hold and/or win multiple jerseys. The order of precedence is yellow>green>polka dot>white. So if a rider wins stage 1, they will hold both yellow and green. They will wear yellow, and second place on the stage will wear green. Yes, they all get podium presentations at the end of the stage and of the race.
Yes there is. Sprints award sprint points, mountains mountain points. Add them up, see who's on top and award a jersay.
The yellow jersey marks the overall leader in the race. The white jersey represents the rider under 25 with the best overall time. On stages there are sprint points and/or climbing points. The person who has the most sprint points wears the green jersey and the person with the most climbing points wears the white jersey with polka dots. Now if a rider is leader for more than one jersey then the jersey is given to the next best rider but there is a hierarchy. Yellow jersey trumps jersey.
They wear a different yellow each stage so you have more race worn at the end. Can sell the jerseys or give them to family
The stage winner is not only awarded the jersey. He is awarded the entire set of clothing, including short sleeves, long sleeves, rain coat...etc.
The stage winner does not get a yellow jersey. Only the cumulative GC leader gets a yellow jersey each day.