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Or, if it's not going to be held every year for the elites and will instead be done biennially or every four years or whatever, does that mean Slovak Barbosa gets to wear the jersey for more than a year, however long it takes for a new elite European RR champ to be crowned, since they've commissioned one?
Depends, it's hard to say what will happen, whether they keep it open next year or they return it to espoir level or what (of course, if Sagan wins in Doha it ceases to be of any relevance). Van der Breggen is wearing one at the moment, for the record, like the podium ones - white with a blue band with stars across the middle, so strangely different to the all-blue one that Niewiadoma has been wearing all season (the next question will be, since she won the U23 version of the jersey, and defended her title thereby, does she get to keep it even though Anna VDB won the actual race?). But then, I don't recall Zorzi or Stultiens wearing the European champion's jersey all season the way Kasia did, although it may come down to the individual teams (Stultiens won it with Rabo then moved to Liv for 2015, so she may have worn it for a couple of day's racing in late 2014, I haven't seen that though).Red Rick said:
Or, if it's not going to be held every year for the elites and will instead be done biennially or every four years or whatever, does that mean Slovak Barbosa gets to wear the jersey for more than a year, however long it takes for a new elite European RR champ to be crowned, since they've commissioned one?
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