LCL currently sponsors the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.
The yellow jersey is worn by the rider leading the general classification, which is calculated from cumulative stage times. The rider with the lowest overall time after the final stage becomes the Tour winner. Because the jersey identifies the race leader day by day, its sponsor is one of the most visible commercial partners in cycling.
LCL is the modern name of the French bank formerly known as Crédit Lyonnais. Crédit Lyonnais became associated with the yellow jersey in 1987, and the sponsorship was credited to LCL from 2007 after the bank adopted that name following its takeover by Crédit Agricole. The bank is also linked to the Tour’s famous stuffed lion prize, a wordplay on “Lyonnais.”
A frequent mix-up is confusing the yellow jersey sponsor with sponsors of the other classification jerseys. Le Coq Sportif has manufactured the yellow jersey in some periods, while Škoda sponsors the green points jersey and E.Leclerc sponsors the polka-dot mountains jersey. Sponsorship and jersey manufacture are separate roles, so the company making a jersey need not be its sponsor.