This past weekend was the Giro’s opening “team presentation,” which is basically the pregame show, in which the teams are introduced and everyone’s looking fresh-faced and hopeful because they haven’t ridden up a volcano yet. If you’re a bike dork, the team presentation is also a chance to look at the team uniforms (called “kits”) and equipment and go gaga over about the new team bikes. Which brings us to EF Education First, a U.S.-based team that usually wears flamingo-pink jerseys on the road. This is a problem for the Giro, however, because the Giro race leader also wears a pink jersey—the iconic maglia rosa—and so the Giro organizers wanted EF to switch up their jerseys to alleviate potential confusion between their guys and the race leader. Which EF agreed to do, and this leads us to our story.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 06, 2020 14:26 UTC