Mountains Competition Leader
The following events use or have used the "green jersey" to signify the current leader and/or final winner of the overall classification of the best climber (often known as the King of the Mountains competition):
- Giro d'Italia (Italian: known as the maglia verde: 1974 to 2011) (see also Mountains classification in the Giro d'Italia)
- Tour de Pologne (Polish: known as the najlepszy góral or Klasyfikacja Górska)
- Vuelta a España (prior to 2008)
As of 2009, no major race uses the "green jersey" to signify the current leader and/or final winner of the overall classification by time (often known as the general classification).
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Famous quotes containing the words mountains, competition and/or leader:
“The mountains look on Marathon—
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dreamed that Greece might still be free;
For standing on the Persians’ grave,
I could not deem myself a slave.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody else’s house to earn money? You’re working class. Wearing overalls at weekends, painting your own house to save money? You’re middle class.”
—Lawrence Sutton, British prizewinner in competition in Sunday Correspondent (London)
“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.... The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)