Tour Tidbit du Jour - 7/12/2011

At the podium presentations at the end of each stage, the stage winner and most aggressive rider receive trophies. The current jersey wearers receive new jerseys, but also receive trophies. The green jersey holder gets a stylized green jersey with the main sponsor PMU, an offsite betting company, stamped on it. The polka-dot jersey receives a Carrefour trophy, a French department store which has been the sponsor of the King of the Mountains prize since the 1990's. The yellow jersey gets a stuffed lion, the mascot of the big French bank (Le Credit Lyonnais) LCL. And the young riders competition gets a stuffed yeti, not anything to do with car manufacturer Skoda, but keeping to the theme of a stuffed animal going to a general classification leader.