Girmay was wearing a skinsuit made by Verge, the kit supplier of his former team Intermarch\u00e9-Wanty, with the red, blue, green, and yellow of Eritrea on the top half and black on the bottom, along with branding of both Eritrea and his trade team, NSN Cycling.<\/p>\n
Mulubrhan was wearing Eritrean colours on both his jersey and his shorts, but the uppers of the two riders’ kits were not an exact match, with Girmay’s arms being predominantly blue with some red, while Mulubrhan’s were red and green.<\/p>\n
Kudus, meanwhile, the only rider to escape a fine, switched his kit between the pre-race podium ceremony and the start line. On the podium, he wore an Ekoi jersey that matched the upper of Mulubrhan’s skinsuit along with black shorts made by RH77, the brand that supplied kit to most of the Eritrean riders last year.<\/p>\n
But in the race he was wearing multi-coloured RH77 shorts that look to be the same ones worn by most of the team \u2013 with the exception of the skinsuited Girmay \u2013 at last year’s Worlds.<\/p>\n
There is another theory, in that both Girmay and Mulubrhan started the race in gilets from their trade teams, NSN Cycling and XDS-Astana, respectively. In fact, they rode with them into the breakaway and only took them off 25km or so in.<\/p>\n
However, Kudus \u2013 who was not fined \u2013 also started the race in a trade team layer, wearing a Burgos-Burpellet-BH long-sleeve jacket, although this was a more neutral black.<\/p>\n
The UCI has not responded to a request for clarification on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Kudus in the race, by which point he’d switched his shorts <\/span>(Image credit: SWpix.com (t\/a Photography Hub Ltd))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe UCI rules aren’t totally clear on wearing trade team clothing at the World Championships, but the rule surrounding ‘different clothing’ specifically notes three items: ‘jersey, shorts, rain jacket’. That’s why many riders wear accessories such as socks and arm warmers from their trade teams. A gilet is something of a grey area given it’s not really a jersey or a rain jacket.<\/p>\n
Jackets, meanwhile, have caused trouble in previous Worlds, given that not all federations have a full range of layers for teams that race in national colours only a few times a year, and given that manufacturers have limited colourway possibilities with waterproof garments.<\/p>\n
It’s also worth pointing out that some nations’ federations are better funded than others, with riders from bigger cycling nations such as Belgium all kitted out in bespoke national gilets, whereas this option isn’t always available to riders from other nations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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