The Tour of Missouri rolls into town this weekend and kicks off on Monday. Sure, there seven ProTour teams entered, Green and Polka Dot jersey winners from the Tour and the fastest sprinter in the world taking part in this years race but lets deal with the important matter.
Last week was the US Road and Time Trial championships and both riders, Hincapie and Zabriskie, will be in MO. That means one thing. The chance to show off some god awful national champion jersey.
Some countries have a cycling tradition and their national jerseys have likewise become tradition. Belgium, France, Switzerland and Italy are fine examples. These jerseys are beautiful in their simplicity and show a certain pride in their country by somewhat faithful recreation of the national flag. It helps that they have basic flags.
Filippo Pozzato felt the wrath this year when he dared to mess with the Italian tricolore. The Italian Cycling Federation demanded a change.
With lots of stars and stripes, the US flag is a little more tricky to represent on a jersey. Restraint is needed. Unfortunately, USA Cycling seems to give creative license to the rider(s) on their jersey design. Sometimes the results are acceptable. Other times they can be hideous. Hincapie has shown some restraint in the past so I am hopeful that George continues to his ways.
Zabriskie, on the other hand, can be a little out of control.
This past year's jersey was non-traditional but I could live with it.
Leipheimer's jersey was something out of the 70's disco era. Bad
And leave it to Rock Racing's Michael Ball to utterly destroy Hamilton's championship jersey
I am hoping for the best.
Last week was the US Road and Time Trial championships and both riders, Hincapie and Zabriskie, will be in MO. That means one thing. The chance to show off some god awful national champion jersey.
Some countries have a cycling tradition and their national jerseys have likewise become tradition. Belgium, France, Switzerland and Italy are fine examples. These jerseys are beautiful in their simplicity and show a certain pride in their country by somewhat faithful recreation of the national flag. It helps that they have basic flags.
Filippo Pozzato felt the wrath this year when he dared to mess with the Italian tricolore. The Italian Cycling Federation demanded a change.
With lots of stars and stripes, the US flag is a little more tricky to represent on a jersey. Restraint is needed. Unfortunately, USA Cycling seems to give creative license to the rider(s) on their jersey design. Sometimes the results are acceptable. Other times they can be hideous. Hincapie has shown some restraint in the past so I am hopeful that George continues to his ways.
Zabriskie, on the other hand, can be a little out of control.
This past year's jersey was non-traditional but I could live with it.
Leipheimer's jersey was something out of the 70's disco era. Bad
And leave it to Rock Racing's Michael Ball to utterly destroy Hamilton's championship jersey
I am hoping for the best.
1 Comments:
Zabriski's just following the TT tradition of over-the-top skin suits - show me a boring skin suit and I'll show you a boring TT rider. I could actually deal with that on a TT rider than the red-white-and blue argyle design on a road rider.
I thought George in his 2006/07 jersey was resplendant.
Tyler's jersey was a mess, but so was he. What a sad ending to a very sad story.
regards--ted
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