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The Tour de France has Jerseys for GC, Sprint, KOM, combatative, and young rider classification, but not for the best TT. Why not? Although Combatative rider, isn't actually a Jersey.
Yeah okay, but it's a long time to wait.1989 TdF.
That is all.
There are enough friggin' jerseys as it is. I'd scrap the best young rider's jersey too, it is just pointless.The Tour de France has Jerseys for GC, Sprint, KOM, combatative, and young rider classification, but not for the best TT. Why not? Although Combatative rider, isn't actually a Jersey.
And that's where it gets interesting. The GC riders tend to have to be the best hill climbers, and TT ers, and frequently the overall GC classification topping riders have been KOM holders somewhere along the line, but rarely do they hold the Green jersey.Not a bad idea, but there are only a few TT's so not a jersey that could be challenged on a daily basis. Also the leading GC riders are usually the best TT riders as well, so might not be worn by the actual leader in the category.
It wouldn't work unless you had a no drafting rule.Aren't there only 2 TTs this year?
I reckon there ought to be one or two days where riders are set off according to their cumulative time. So today, for instance, Froome would go off 12 seconds ahead of Thomas and 54 seconds ahead of Qintana, to pick out a couple at random. The position on the road would therefore be the actual position in the race. It would break the peloton up massively, and leave the GC leaders isolated from their teams. Knowing days like this were in the mix would force some of the domestiques to keep their overall time sharp, otherwise they could find themselves an hour behind their man on the road and unable to help. With a formula for cut off time it could force the sprinters into working a bit harder in the mountains, too. Whoever wins the stage is automatically the race leader.
Because the front riders would sit up and wait for everyone else to reform. You don't think the Yellow Jersey is going to blast off and try to hold his 12 second advantage over a 200k stage, do you?Why not?