When did helmets become mandatory in the tour de france?
The team classification is assessed by adding the time of each team's best three riders each day. The competition does not have its own jersey but since 2006 the leading team has worn numbers printed black-on-yellow. Until 1990, the leading team would wear yellow caps. As of 2012, the riders of the leading team wear yellow helmets. During the era of national teams, France and Belgium won 10 times each. From 1973 up to 1988, there was also a team classification based on points (stage classification); members of the leading team would wear green caps.
When did yellow helmets for the leading team become mandatory in the tour de france?
2012
Tour de France
While voluntary helmet use in professional ranks rose somewhat in the 1990s, the turning point in helmet policy was the March 2003 death of Andrei Kivilev at the Paris–Nice. The new rules were introduced on 5 May 2003, with the 2003 Giro d'Italia being the first major race affected. The 2003 rules allowed for discarding the helmets during final climbs of at least 5 kilometres in length; subsequent revisions made helmet use mandatory at all times.
What year did helmets become mandatory in the tour de france?
2003
Bicycle helmet
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After what event did helmets become mandatory in the tour de france?
Kivilev's death
Tour de France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour%20de%20France
Andrey Kivilev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey%20Kivilev
Bicycle helmet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle%20helmet
2003 Tour de France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%20Tour%20de%20France
Andrei Mikhailovich Kivilev (Russian: Андрей Михайлович Кивилёв, 20 September 1973 – 12 March 2003) was a professional road bicycle racer from Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan. In March 2003, he crashed during the Paris–Nice race and subsequently died of his injuries. His death was the trigger for the UCI to implement the compulsory wearing of helmets in all endorsed races.
Andrey Kivilev
In 2003 cyclist Andrei Mikailovich's crashed and suffered a head injury while participating in the Paris-Nice race. After Kivilev's death rules were put in place for all endorsed races to have helmets and this became mandatory in the Tour de France in 2003. Leaders wearing the yellow helmets in the Tour de France became mandatory in 2012.