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Finally some useful, important news. The Giro organisers are bringing back the black jersey for the last placed rider!

Read more about it in cycling news.
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Finally some useful, important news. The Giro organisers are bringing back the black jersey for the last placed rider!

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Lucky they are using only a white number on a black background instead of a jersey...otherwise the whole of Team High Road might have looked like they were coming last.

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The article is wrong. I've seen pics of riders wearing the black jersey in the 70's and 80's.
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Lucky they are using only a white number on a black background instead of a jersey...otherwise the whole of Team High Road might have looked like they were coming last.
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The article is wrong. I've seen pics of riders wearing the black jersey in the 70's and 80's.
I saw those guys last year...... looked a little like Astana riders but I could be wrong.....
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Finally some useful, important news. The Giro organisers are bringing back the black jersey for the last placed rider!

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That is important information.

Mr Pinarello - road as a professional in the Giro in 1950's - was I believe the last man to have "won" the maglia negro.

Looks like the GT's are all harking back to thie respective histories.
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Bump. This is, after all, the most important thread here at the moment.
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Bump. This is, after all, the most important thread here at the moment.
It is important, i will do an interview with the winner in milano and ask him who his doctor is...

Did I realy write that? Oppps...
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Does this mean Rasmussen will be riding?
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It is important, i will do an interview with the winner in milano and ask him who his doctor is...

Did I realy write that? Oppps...
You are a very, very naughty boy.
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You are a very, very naughty boy.
Good doctors aren't exactly cheap so if you finish at the last place a rider should sue his doc...
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Does this mean Rasmussen will be riding?
LOL, I was going to make the same comment. Bravo.
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The article is wrong. I've seen pics of riders wearing the black jersey in the 70's and 80's.
Yup, I believe the last one was awarded in 1979.
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It adds quite a bit to the race. It illustrates how hard GTs are. The guy in last is the winner of the competition, but he can lose the jersey by missing the time cut or if someone slips below him. So, it becomes this calculated thing where you're trying to finish as far back as possible while still making the time cut.

That is, if you want to stay in the jersey. Seems like any jersey would generate publicity. You know people would be rooting for the guy in the black jersey.
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It adds quite a bit to the race. It illustrates how hard GTs are. The guy in last is the winner of the competition, but he can lose the jersey by missing the time cut or if someone slips below him. So, it becomes this calculated thing where you're trying to finish as far back as possible while still making the time cut.

That is, if you want to stay in the jersey. Seems like any jersey would generate publicity. You know people would be rooting for the guy in the black jersey.
If they can shift focus more onto this guy... rather than the GC leader... in all GT's...it might just break the vicious circle that encourages doping...
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