Tinkoff-Saxo unveil camouflage kit for Tour de France
Tinkoff-Saxo have unveiled a modified kit for the Tour de France in order to avoid a clash with the hallowed maillot jaune. Twelve months ago, the yellow on the team’s kit was given a fluorescent hue for the Tour. This time out, Alberto Contador and company will wear a pale yellow jersey that incorporates the camouflage design the team wore on its kit during pre-season training.
"I really like the Tour de France kit. It's a nice combination of this season's racing kit and the one we started using in our training camp in Gran Canaria last December. I like its colours and, hopefully, so will our fans,” Contador said in a press release issued by Tinkoff-Saxo on Tuesday.
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Tinkoff-Saxo are the second team to reveal a second kit for the Tour after LottoNL-Jumbo last week confirmed that their jerseys would feature more white than yellow in July.
The concept of changed strips for the Tour is by no means a new departure. In the 1990s, the ONCE squad used to swap its yellow jerseys for pink at the Tour (they also wore black and then grey around the turn of the century), while Marco Pantani’s Mercatone Uno squad also changed its colours for the Tour. In the 1980s, Sean Kelly’s KAS squad also added more blue to its traditional yellow jersey for the Tour.
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