Green is the new black?
If, like me, you’ve been following the Tour de France out of the corner of your eye, you might have noticed that the famous “Blue Train” came to an abrupt halt. The deep navy of the US Postal uniforms and the sky blue of the Discovery Channel uniforms are gone. This year Team Disco sports a new look for the Tour, featuring green highlights to underscore their commitment to becoming carbon-neutral in 2007.
Now, on this day when the temperatures on the way to Marseilles exceeded 100°F (nearly 40°C), could someone be good enough to explain to me how donning a predominantly black team kit demonstrates any sort of awareness of one’s natural surroundings? The Disco boys are plenty hot enough without donning their own skintight greenhouses, no?
