Back in the day, if a rider won a world championship, any world championship in any discipline or rider category, that rider would often spend the rest of their career with the CdM stripes on the collar. Not always, but it was not an uncommon sight.
Today, it is more common that only pro CdM victories are memorialized. (Although some current riders also shank their jersey with national champion stripes or Olympic champion rings.)
Brett Horton San Francisco, CA
<<<Aldo Ross wrote: Roger's 1973 jersey has CdM stripes on the collar, but he didn't win his pro cyclocross world championship title until 1975. However, he did win the amateur version in 1968, the same year his brother Eric won the last of his seven (7!) pro cross titles!!!>>>
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