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The only endorsement I know of is when Lil Jon said:
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Jay-Z increased the demand for French Cristal when he kept putting it into his rhymes. Other rappers followed suit. Cristal spokespeople said they weren’t paying him.
I always hear fashion names and other brands, but I’m sure they mostly just get free clothes and products.
Do most rappers get paid as well? Or are they just shouting out the brands to show their wealth?
The Vans song should definitely be endorsed, cause it’s silly otherwise.
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Yellow Jersey

The Yellow jersey  is the jersey worn by the leader of many multi-stage bicycle races, originally and most notably the Tour de France. It allows the rider who was in the overall lead at the end of the previous day to be easily identified.

<a href=”http://www.himfr.com/buy-Beauty_tunic/”>Beauty tunic</a>In American English it is sometimes referred to as the mellow johnny, a mispronunciation of its French name given by Lance Armstrong, who wore it many times while winning the 1999-2005 races. The phrase has also been used as a nickname for Lance Armstrong.

Multi-day bicycle races, known as Tours from the French word for a “circuit”, are decided by totalling the time each rider takes on the daily stages. From or to this total can be added bonuses or penalties, for winning individual stages or being first to top a mountain or for breaking the rules. The rider with the lowest time receives a yellow shirt, and the right to start the next stage, usually the next day, of the Tour de France in the yellow jersey.[1]

The rider to receive the shirt after the last stage, nowadays in Paris, is the overall (or ultimate) winner of the Tour.

Similar leader’s jerseys exist in other cycling races, but are not always yellow (the color being chosen by the individual race organizers). The Tour of California and the Vuelta a Espana use gold, the Giro d’Italia uses pink, and theTour Down Under uses an ochre-coloured jersey, as ochre is a colour strongly associated with Australia, particularly its desert regions.

The winner of the first Tour de France wore not a yellow jersey but a green armband.[2] There is doubt over when the yellow jersey began. The Belgian rider Philippe Thys, who won the Tour in 1913, 1914 and 1920, recalled in the Belgian magazine Champions et Vedettes when he was 67 that he was awarded a yellow jersey in 1913 when the organiser, Henri Desgrange, asked him to wear a coloured jersey. Thys declined, saying making himself more visible in yellow would encourage other riders to ride against him.[3][2]

He said:”He then made his argument from another direction. Several stages later, it was my team manager at Peugeot, (Alphonse) Baug?, who urged me to give in. The yellow jersey would be an advertisement for the company and, that being the argument, I was obliged to concede. So a yellow jersey was bought in the first shop we came to. It was just the right size, although we had to cut a slightly larger hole for my head to go through.” [3][4][5]

He spoke of the next year’s race, when “I won the first stage and was beaten by a tyre by Bossus in the second. On the following stage, the maillot jaune passed to Georget after a crash.”

The Tour historian Jacques Augendre called Thys “a valorous rider… well-known for his intelligence” and said his claim “seems free from all suspicion”. But: “No newspaper mentions a yellow jersey before the war. Being at a loss for witnesses, we can’t solve this enigma.”[6]

The formal history, therefore, is that the first yellow jersey was worn by the Frenchman Eug?ne Christophe in the stage from Grenoble to Geneva on July 18, 1919.[7] The colour was chosen either to reflect the yellow newsprint of the organising newspaper, L’Auto, or because yellow was an unpopular colour and therefore the only one available with which a manufacturer could create jerseys at late notice.[2]

The two possibilities have been promoted equally but the idea of matching the colour of Desgrange’s newspaper seems more probable because Desgrange wrote: “This morning I gave the valiant Christophe a superb yellow jersey. You already know that our director decided that the man leading the race [de t?te du classement g?n?ral] should wear a jersey in the colours of L’Auto. The battle to wear this jersey is going to be passionate.”[8] It is possible, of course, that the availability of only yellow in sufficient quantities proved a happy chance for L’Auto and that Desgrange was justifying a choice that he had never had to make.

Christophe disliked wearing it, anyway, and complained that spectators imitated canaries whenever he passed. It was a habit encouraged by his nickname of Cri-Cri (from “Christophe”) which is French babytalk for a bird.[2] Christophe remembered riders and spectators teasing: “Ah, the yellow jersey! Isn’t he beautiful, the canary? What are you doing, Madame Cri-Cri”, adding, “And that lasted the whole course.”[9]

There was no formal presentation when Christophe wore his first yellow jersey in Grenoble, from where the race left at 2am for the 325km to Geneva. He was given it the night before and tried it on later in his hotel.[2]

After Desgrange’s death, his stylized initials were added to the yellow jersey, originally on the chest. They moved in 1969 to the sleeve to make way for a logo advertising Virlux. A further advertisement for the clothing company Nike appeared at the bottom of the zip fastener at the neck, the first supplementary advertisement on the maillot jaune.

Desgrange’s initials returned to the front of the jersey in 1972, some years on the left, others on the right. They were removed in 1984 to make way for a commercial logo but reappeared in 2003 as part of the Tour’s centenary celebrations. One set of initials is now worn on the upper right chest of the jersey.

The original yellow jerseys were of conventional style. Riders had to pull them over their head on the rostrum. For many years the jersey was made in only limited sizes and many riders found it a struggle to pull one on, especially when tired or wet. The presentation jersey is now made with a full-length zip at the back and the rider pulls it on from the front, sliding his hands through the sleeves rather like a strait-jacket. He then receives three further jerseys each day, plus money (referred to as the “rent”) for each day he leads the race.

There is no copyright on the yellow jersey and it has been imitated by many other races, although not always for the best rider overall: in the Tour of Benelux yellow is worn by the best young rider.

The Lance Armstrong Foundation donated the yellow jersey from Armstrong’s fourth Tour de France win (2002) to the National Museum of American History, a branch of the Smithsonian.[10]

In the early years of the Tour de France, the time was measured in minutes. Although usually cyclists were seconds apart, sometimes several cyclists shared the same time. In 1913, before the introduction of the yellow jersey, this had happened with the two leaders, Philippe Thys and Jean Rossius[11].

After the introduction of the yellow jersey in 1919, the situation occurred twice more. The first time was in 1929, when even three riders had the same time when the race reached Bordeaux. Nicolas Frantz of Luxembourg and the Frenchmen Victor Fontan and Andr? Leducq all rode in yellow, although none held it to the finish in Paris.[12][13] In 1931, the situation occurred for the second time, when Charles Plissier and Rafaele di Paco were both leading with the same time.

The problem of joint leaders was resolved by giving the jersey to whichever rider had the best daily finishing places earlier in the race. The introduction of a short time trial at the start of the race in 1967 – the prologue time trial – meant riders have since been divided by fractions of seconds recorded in that race, excepting the 2008 edition. According to the ASO rules”In the event of a tie in the general ranking, the hundredth of a second recorded by the timekeepers during the individual time trial stages will be included in the total times in order to decide the overall winner and who takes the yellow jersey. If a tie should still result from this, then the places achieved for each stage are added up and, as a last resort, the place obtained in the final stage is counted.”

Riders who became race leader through the misfortune of others have ridden next day without the yellow jersey.

In 1950, Ferdi Kubler of Switzerland rode in his national jersey rather than yellow when the race leader, Fiorenze Magni abandoned the race along with the Italian team in protest at threats said to have been made by spectators.

Eddy Merckx declined the jersey in 1971 after its previous wearer, Luis Ocaa, crashed on the col de Mente in the Pyrenees.

The Dutchman Joop Zoetemelk did not wear the yellow jersey that passed to him in 1980 when his rival, Bernard Hinault retired with a knee injury.

In 1991, Greg Lemond rode without the jersey after a crash eliminated Rolf Srensen of Denmark.

In 2005, Lance Armstrong refused to start in the yellow jersey after the previous owner David Zabriskie was eliminated by a crash, but put it on after the neutral zone on request of the race organizers. [16]

The yellow jersey on the first day of the Tour is traditionally permitted to be worn by the winner of the previous year’s race; however, wearing it is a choice left to the rider, and in recent years has gone out of fashion. If the winner does not ride, the jersey is not worn. The previous year’s winner traditionally has race number “1″ (with his teammates given the other single-digit racing numbers), with subsequent sets of numbers determined by the highest classified riders for that team in the previous Tour. The lead riders for a particular team will often wear the first number in the series (11, 21, 31 and so forth), but these riders are not necessarily contenders for the general classification – teams led by sprinters will often designate the maillot vert contender as their lead rider.

In 2007 there was neither a yellow jersey at the start of the race nor a number 1; the previous winner, Floyd Landis of the United States failed a doping control after the race and organisers declined to declare an official winner pending arbitration of the Landis case. On September 20, 2007, Landis was officially stripped of his title following the arbitration court’s guilty verdict, and the 2006 title passed to ?scar Pereiro; in 2008, the runner-up in 2007, Cadel Evans was given the race number “1″ when the 2007 winner, Alberto Contador was unable to defend his title due to a dispute between the organisers ASO and his new team Astana barring that team from riding the Tour.

In 1978 the Belgian rider Michel Pollentier became race leader after attacking on the Alpe d’Huez. He was disqualified the same day after trying to cheat a drugs test.

In 1988, Pedro Delgado of Spain won the Tour despite a drugs test which showed he had taken a drug which could be used to hide the use of steroids. News of the test was leaked to the press by the former organiser of the Tour, Jacques Goddet.[17] Delgado was allowed to continue because the drug, probenecid, was banned by the International Olympic Committee but not by the Union Cycliste Internationale.[2]

The 1996 winner, Bjarne Riis of Denmark said in 2007 that he had used drugs during the race. He was disqualified and asked to stay away from that year’s Tour. Riis, as Directeur Sportif of the Danish Team CSC, has implemented a stringent drug-testing regime for the team’s riders, and has become an important voice against doping in the sport.

The 2006 winner, Floyd Landis was disqualified more than a year after the race. After he failed a doping control after his stunning Stage 17 victory, an arbitration panel declared him guilty of blood doping in September 2007, after which the official title for the 2006 Tour passed to ?scar Pereiro. Landis has appealed his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport but lost this appeal at the end of June 2008[1] allowing Oscar Pereiro to start the 2008 edition of Le Tour de France as the unqualified 2006 Tour champion.

In 2007, the Danish rider Michael Rasmussen was withdrawn from the race by his team after complaints that he had not made himself available for drugs tests earlier in the year. Rasmussen said he had been in Mexico but there were reports that he had been seen training in Italy.

Maurice Garin won the Tour de France before yellow jerseys were awarded but in 1904 he was disqualified as winner after complaints that he and other riders had cheated. The allegations disappeared along with the Tour de France’s other archives when they were taken south in 1940 to avoid the German invasion. But a man who as a small boy knew Garin recalled that the old man had admitted catching a train part of the way.[18]

The rider who has most worn the yellow jersey is the Belgian Eddy Merckx, who wore it 96 days. The greatest number of riders to wear the jersey in a single edition of Le Tour de France is eight, which happened in 1958 and 1987. The 2008 edition of Le Tour witnessed 7 wearers (Alejandro Valverde, Roman Feillu, Stefan Schumacher, Kim Kirchen, Cadel Evans, Frank Schleck, Carlos Sastre), leaving the record unbroken.

The yellow jersey was made for decades, like all other cycling jerseys, from wool. No synthetic fibres existed which had both the warmth and the absorption of wool. Embroidery was expensive and so the only lettering to appear on the jersey was the H.D. of Desgrange’s initials. Riders added the name of the team for which they were riding or the professional team for which they normally rode (in the years when the Tour was for national rather than sponsored teams) by attaching a panel of printed cloth to the front of the jersey by pins.

While synthetic material didn’t exist in a way to create whole jerseys, synthetic thread or blends were added in 1947, following the arrival of Sofil as a sponsor. Sofil made artificial yarn.[17] Riders believed in the pureness of wool, and especially the Frenchman Louison Bobet, or Louis Bobet as he was still known.

Bobet insisted that cyclists needed wool for their long days of sweating in the heat and dust. It was a matter of hygiene. Artificial fabrics made riders sweat too much. And, in his first Tour de France, he refused to wear the jersey with which he had been presented.

Goddet recalled:”It produced a real drama. Our contract with Sofil was crumbling away. If the news had got out, the commercial effect would have been disastrous for the manufacturer. I remember debating it with him a good part of the night. Louison was always exquisitely courteous but his principles were as hard as the granite blocks of his native Brittany coast.”[17]

No compromise was possible. Goddet had to get Sofil to produce another jersey overnight, its logo still visible but artificial fabric absent.

In 1949, Norbert Callens won the second stage, from Brussels to Boulogne-sur-Mer. With this victory, he became race leader, although he was not given a yellow jersey. Reports vary on the reason for this. One says the van with all the jerseys broke down on the way to the finish and that someone found a yellow T-shirt or sweater so Callens could stand on the rostrum and get a kiss from the singer Line Renaud.[19] Another says the jersey had been left in a hotel by a soigneur and Callens had had to ride in a yellow T-shirt, maybe the one he’d been given the day before[dubious ??discuss].

To add to his misery, Callens found he had also fallen out with his team. The leader had been his team-mate Roger Lambrecht, much stronger than Callens. Now Belgium had to defend a weaker man. Callens came to the start next morning in such a foul mood that he refused to wear the proper yellow jersey, which had eventually turned up, and was fined 3,000 old French francs. His dismay could only have worsened when the race then resolved to get him out of the lead and next day, missing the break of the day to Rouen, he lost a quarter of an hour. By the ninth stage, things were so bad that he was eliminated for finishing too far back.

For the veteran writer and television broadcaster Jean-Paul Ollivier, the woollen yellow jersey”…gave the riders a rare elegance, even if the way it caught the air left something to be desired. In wool, then in Rovyl – a material used for making underwear – it entered into legend for the quality of those who wore it. Those were the years of national teams. In 1930 Henri Desgrange, the organiser, decided that commercially-sponsored teams were contriving to spoil his race and opted instead for teams representing countries. The Tour de France stayed that way until 1962, when it reverted to commercial teams with the exception of 1967 and 1968 and the riders knotted on their jerseys a spare tyre [across the shoulders] A narrow slip of white cotton placed on the chest showed discreetly the name of the sponsor outside the Tour: La Perle, Mercier, Helyett…”

The advent of printing by flocking, a process in which cotton fluff is sprayed on to stencilled glue, and then of screen printing, combined with the domination of synthetic materials to increase the advertising on jerseys: the domination which Ollivier regrets. “All sorts of fantasies such as fluorescent jerseys or shorts,” he said.[7] Such was the quantity of advertising when Bernard Thvenet accepted the yellow jersey when the Tour finished for the first time on the Champs Elyses in 1975 that the French sports minister counted all the logos and protested to broadcasters. Since then the number of people with access to the podium has been restricted.

The French bank, Crdit Lyonnais, has sponsored the maillot jaune since 1987. The company has been a commercial partner of the Tour since 1981. It awards a toy lion – le lion en peluche – to each day’s winner as a play on its name. In 2007, sponsorship of the jersey was credited to LCL, the new name for Crdit Lyonnais following its takeover by another bank, Cr?dit Agricole.

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