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The Tour de France yellow jersey arrived in 1919

The colour matched the pages of the newspaper that ran the race The race had been without a leader's jersey for its first fifteen editions. Organisers introduced the maillot jaune in 1919, and Eugène Christophe was the first to wear it, though he lost the lead after a broken fork. The yellow refers to the newsprint of L'Auto. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The colour matched the pages of the newspaper that ran the race. The figure is taken from Tour de France, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.