US EditionTour De France 2025: It's the Year of the 50th Anniversary of the Polka Dot Jersey!
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In 1975, Felix Levitan offered climbers the most beautiful of the projectors. A white jersey with red dots to be able to designate the best of them on the Tour route. Since the Belgian Lucien Van Impe, first...
Every summer, at the heart of the legendary passes of the Tour de France, a jersey attracts all eyes: the famous white jersey with red dots, worn by the leader of the mountain classification. But do you really know the history of this iconic jersey? Forget the legend of Poulain chocolate: he is a former runner named Henri Lemoine who is at the origin of it. Created in 1933, the classification of the mountain rewards the best climbers of the pelo…
The fight for the famous white jersey with red polka dots will be tight between the favourites of the general classification and stage hunters. Even if this year again, the scale does not necessarily benefit the big arms of the peloton. From Tadej Pogacar to Lenny Martinez and Clément Champoussin or Sergio Higuita, here are our bets.
This year the polka dot jersey, the one that identifies the leader of the mountain classification, turns 50. It is one of the most recognized symbols of the Grande Boucle, the white jersey with red polka dots that on its debut i......
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