There's a veritable rainbow of apparel available to the riders of the Giro d'Italia, but what do they mean? We explain what it means to be wearing the pink, blue, purple or white jersey.

Aru bucked the trend by wearing a traditional Italian champion’s jersey during his final six months at Astana, but the UAE-Team Emirates colours will feature on his 2018 version.

It's the newest of the four jerseys on offer at the Giro after being originally introduced in 1969 for just neo-pros, before developing into an armband for two seasons in the early 1970s and then ...