00:00it's the color of innocence of purity and it celebrates the insouciance of youth the white
00:13jersey is given to the best rider under the age of 26 at the Tour de France and celebrates its
00:1950th anniversary this year Francesco Moser was the first man to wear it
00:29and to win it in 1975 the Italian more than lived up to his potential going on to win the Giro d'Italia
00:36and world championship titles on the track and on the road
00:40French favorite Thibaut Pinot was the best young rider at the Tour in 2014
00:53while the Yates brothers have both taken home the white jersey
00:57Adam won it in 2016 and Simon followed in his footsteps in 2017
01:02Colombian star Nairo Quintana never quite managed to win the Tour finishing as runner-up in 2013 and
01:132015 and in both of those years he took white he did enjoy Grand Tour success elsewhere though
01:19winning the Giro and the Vuelta
01:21his compatriot Egan Bernal ended up with the white jersey and the yellow jersey in 2019
01:31becoming the first Colombian to win the Tour
01:34and he wasn't the first to double up
01:40Laurent Fignon was also the best young rider when he won the Tour in 1983
01:44Greg Le Mans took white in 1984 and went on to win the Tour three times
01:50famously beating Fignon by just eight seconds in 1989
01:54Alberto Contador also won white and yellow in 2007
02:00while Andy Schleck was the best young rider three years in a row
02:04winning the Tour outright in 2010
02:06and then there's the record holder
02:10Pogacar looking for another stage win at the top of the Grand Colombian
02:15between 2020 and 2023 Tade Pogacar made white his own
02:20winning the youth classification four times in a row
02:23Jonas Vingegaard has cracked Tade Pogacar on the climb of the Mont Ventoux
02:30Jonas Vingegaard never won white but his battles with Pogacar for yellow have become legendary
02:36and the Slovenian leads their overall head-to-head 3-2
02:39the man defending white this year is the double Olympic champion Remco Evenapol
