{"id":390344,"date":"2026-01-25T22:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390344\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T22:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:19:16","slug":"rory-townsends-new-minimalist-irish-champions-kit-looks-like-a-winner-sticky-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390344\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory Townsend\u2019s new minimalist Irish champion\u2019s kit looks like a winner \u2013 Sticky Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1260\" height=\"778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/xTownsend-and-Roche.jpg.pagespeed.ic.gUGVRzU_BN.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203415\"  \/>Rory Townsend has a new team, which has come up with this fine effort at an Irish national champion\u2019s kit, much like Nicolas Roche\u2019s Team Sky livery back in 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Rory Townsend was getting his 2026 season underway at Cl\u00e0ssica Comunitat Valenciana today, Sunday. And that means the Irish men\u2019s national road race champion rolled out in his national champion\u2019s kit for the first time with new team Unibet Rose Rockets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The kit, which looks fantastic, is a mostly white, very sparse, look with just a green band on around the torso, featuring a white shamrock, and the colours of the tricolour on the sleeves, with matching gloves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The sponsor logos have also been kept more discreet on the champion\u2019s kit compared with the standard team jerseys worn by the other riders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">All in all, it looks like a winner; very fresh, with the colours of the Irish flag, especially the green, subtly display on a white background. It is very similar to the design Team Sky came up with for Nicolas Roche after he won his second national road race title in Kilcullen, Co Kildare, back in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Roche\u2019s kit was also mostly white with a green band, in a slightly darker shade, around the jersey and with a white shamrock, albeit slightly smaller than Townsend\u2019s. Roche\u2019s kit at the time was a fan\u2019s favourite and Townsend\u2019s will likely all be well received.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/xTownsend-1-800x1000.jpg.pagespeed.ic.6l5CzY4tEF.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203418\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"799\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/xTownsend-799x1000.jpg.pagespeed.ic.NMOOkls2rY.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203421\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/xTownsend-2-800x1000.jpg.pagespeed.ic.T8IDjmei0J.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203419\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/xTownsend-3-1-800x1000.jpg.pagespeed.ic.i4XQwRfcd_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203420\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory Townsend has a new team, which has come up with this fine effort at an Irish national&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-390344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}