Winning the Tour de France without wearing the yellow jersey

Jan Janssen after winning the Tour de France in 1968 in the very last stage.

Since the introduction of the yellow jersey in 1919, there were only two cyclists to win the race with taking the first place in the general classification in the last stage. Thus they didn’t have the opportunity to wear the yellow jersey during that particular edition of Tour de France. Jean Robic (1947) After the … Read more