{"id":19055,"date":"2023-03-12T07:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T07:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/12\/five-fantastic-fashions-a-poll-winners-poll\/"},"modified":"2023-03-12T07:26:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T07:26:03","slug":"five-fantastic-fashions-a-poll-winners-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/12\/five-fantastic-fashions-a-poll-winners-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Fantastic Fashions! A Poll-Winners\u2019 Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the features of each of the \u201cfive fast factors\u201d mini-preview series that just concluded was the fifth factor, seeking to ask of each franchise, when did they perfect their kit? Every year new kits come out and people give their thumbs up or down, but rarely do we link back to the previous edition in making that judgment, let alone winding all the way back through a team\u2019s fashion history to place it all in context. <\/p>\n

Until now.<\/p>\n

Below are the 10 definite winners of the 11 teams reviewed, plus a couple extras explained below. And one of the teams, FJD, we don\u2019t really have a true winner yet, but I tossed in the two likeliest winners. And now I am asking you to vote for the best of the best! In doing so… I am not even sure what I am asking you, but I think for me it will be which version seems most inspired in the context of kit development. You can think of it that way. Or just pick the one you like best. Anyway, please scroll through the review of the winners, and vote!<\/p>\n

Israel Premier Tech: 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This one garnered just under a majority, 45% and with more than twice the number of the next most popular option. Yes, 2023 is a good year for kits, but it also helps to take some time and get beyond \u201cwhat if the Israeli flag were a jersey?\u201d<\/p>\n

Quick Step-[insert]: 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sitting pretty with 41% of 73 votes cast, about three times the all-black one from a few years earlier. It\u2019s a lot of blue, but compared to other iterations (which were almost all a lot of blue), the deep shade here seemed to stand out.<\/p>\n

EF Education-EasyPost (a\/k\/a Slipstream)…<\/strong> <\/p>\n

We have a dead heat! 18% each. So I will give you their two very disparate options, the nouveau pink and the old style Garmin classic.<\/p>\n

2023 EF:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Who doesn\u2019t love pink and black?<\/p>\n

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Anyway, the 2010 Garmin Classic:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Two memorable choices.<\/p>\n

2020 INEOS: <\/strong><\/p>\n

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No team\u2019s kit evolution generated less consensus than INEOS, whose winner, shown above, was 1-3 votes ahead of two other options, and at 16% support, there are probably some groans about the outcome there.<\/p>\n

UAE (Lampre) 2010:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This pink and blue classic garnered 42% of the 57 votes cast, easily taking the UAE category. In fact, Lampre kits placed 1-2-3 in the voting, with all of UAE\u2019s muted fashions added together still only taking about a quarter of the total votes.<\/p>\n

Bahrain Victorious 2020:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This version might have benefited from a bit of illegal assistance when I labeled it their \u201chot as the sun\u201d look. It got 35% of 62 votes, a couple clicks beyond this year\u2019s kit.<\/p>\n

Trek Segafredo 2021:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This look didn\u2019t exactly dominate the competition, taking 23%, just ahead of their red-shouldered\/black torso stripey thing and a classic LEOPARD one. I do think this is their most recognizable version, for some reason.<\/p>\n

Jumbo …<\/strong> another double.<\/p>\n

I may be breaking the law here, but we had two versions separated by a single vote… and like 15 years (and 100% of the sponsors, riders, management etc.). So I think I\u2019ll put both out there \u2014 mostly because the winner was the Rabobank one which I don\u2019t feel great about including.<\/p>\n

Jumbo Masterpiece 2021 Tour special:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Masterpiece jersey \u2014 inspired by the brushwork of Rembrandt, Vermeer and van Gogh \u2014 was such a giant Dutch culture flex that it broke through and scored 28%, best of the recent Jumbo editions.<\/p>\n

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Aaaand 29% of you were so overcome with nostalgia that you voted for this Rabo classic, which had about 20 different versions of more or less the same thing. This is from 2010.<\/p>\n

Alpecin-Fenix-Deceuninck 2021 Tour Special Mercier Throwback: <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fully 65% of the 74 votes cast were for this temporary throwback edition used in the 2021 Tour de France. So either a lot of us were touched by the loving tribute to Raymond Poulidor, or are in our late 70s. Or both!<\/p>\n

Bora Hansgrohe 2023:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This one got a third of the 60 votes and won handily. Bora are a good example of their look going somewhere, and then actually getting there.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not quite sure we have a winner for the Groupama FDJ review yet, but it looks like these are the top two options. I\u2019ll put \u201cone of the FDJs\u201d in the poll.<\/p>\n

Groupama FDJ 2023:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Like I said, this is a developing situation, but two very nice looks: a replica of the French national team and a lovely sunny white with some updates on the old clover look.<\/p>\n

OK, vote!<\/p>\n

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Poll<\/span><\/h3>\n

What is the most significant, memorable, likeable kit from the recent history of team kits?<\/h4>\n
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