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The Giro leaders’ jerseys: A touch of color in the peloton.

All the riders who line up at the start of the Giro d’Italia dream of it, but they’re not the only ones. Every bike racer, from an early age, imagines wearing that color when fantasizing about his moment of glory on two wheels. It’s the pink jersey, the symbol of supremacy, worn for three weeks by the rider who at that moment leads the general classification. In the more than hundred-year history of the Giro, the most sought-after jersey made its appearance for the first time in 1931, when the patron of the race, Armando Cougnet, chose it to make the most deserving rider stand out in the peloton and, at the same time, to pay homage to the color of the pages of the Gazzetta dello Sport, the best-selling newspaper in Italy, which created the Giro back in 1909. The first to pull on the pink jersey, at the finish in Mantua, was Learco Guerra, on May 10, 1931. The “Human Locomotive,” as the Lombard champion was called, did not manage to keep it until Milan, though, and the first to win pink for the final victory was the Piedmontese rider Francesco Camusso, winner of the edition 87 years ...

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