{"id":9979,"date":"2022-01-13T13:52:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T21:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hortoncollection.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=9979"},"modified":"2022-01-13T14:24:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T22:24:46","slug":"jacques-marinelli-oldest-living-yellow-jersey-wearer-signed-photo","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.hortoncollection.com\/product\/jacques-marinelli-oldest-living-yellow-jersey-wearer-signed-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacques Marinelli, Oldest Living Yellow Jersey Wearer, Signed Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow Jersey Legend &#8211; Jacques Marinelli<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yellow Jersey Legends - Jacques Marinelli\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sSLxTAOvmD8?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacques Marinelli, the oldest living yellow jersey wearer, wore the yellow jersey for six days at the 1949 Tour de France before finishing third behind Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali.<\/p>\n<p>Marinelli rode the Tour six times between 1948 and 1954 but finished only in 1949 and 1952 when he came 31st.\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-5\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>He became the first rider in the Tour to write a column for\u00a0L&#8217;\u00c9quipe, in 1949.<\/p>\n<p>Marinelli became known as &#8220;<i>la perruche&#8221;<\/i>\u00a0during the 1949 Tour. Riding for the regional Ile-de-France team rather than the national team, Marinelli rose above his humble status by attacking repeatedly during the first four days. On the fourth he came second and became race leader, leading a field that included\u00a0Fausto Coppi\u00a0and\u00a0Gino Bartali. He exchanged the green jersey of the Ile-de-France for the yellow jersey of the leader. The next morning the organizer,\u00a0Jacques Goddet, wrote in\u00a0<i>L&#8217;\u00c9quipe<\/i>: &#8220;Our budgerigar has been transformed into a canary&#8221;, a reference to Marinelli&#8217;s small stature in yellow.\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-larepublique.com_6-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>The nickname stuck \u2013 but &#8220;budgerigar&#8221; rather than &#8220;canary&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Marinelli rode above himself and exploited the rivalry between Coppi and Bartali to keep the lead for another five days, as far as the\u00a0Pyrenees. Marinelli still has the yellow jersey, although it has been eaten by moths.\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-ina.fr_7-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>He said: &#8220;For a great champion to wear the yellow jersey, that&#8217;s normal. But when it&#8217;s an amateur\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-8\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0that&#8217;s different, and then again my height, I think that&#8217;s what contributed to my popularity.&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-ina.fr_7-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please Note<\/strong>: This item is a modern photographic reproduction of an old postal card with an original Jacques Marinelli Signature.<\/p>\n<p>As many of the cards are quite old and one of a kind, please look a the photos carefully to determine the condition.<\/p>\n<p>Size: 9.5 x 15 cm<\/p>\n<p>Biography Excerpt from<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacques_Marinelli\"> Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9980,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_cat":[29,99],"product_tag":[102,373,31,368],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hortoncollection.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hortoncollection.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hortoncollection.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hortoncollection.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hortoncollection.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hortoncollection.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=9979"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hortoncollection.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=9979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}