Quote Originally Posted by Eden View Post
I think it may have been first coined at very early TDF's - a red lantern used to be displayed on the caboose of a train to indicate that it was the last car - so the last guy in the race got dubbed the lantern rouge.

It was. At my work party last year(I work for a gym, and the owners also own one of the LBS's, so it was a joint gym/lbs gholiday party) we went bowling and I got the Lantern Rouge Trophy for being the worst bowler-haha!