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But what campaign? - petitioning British Cycling? Tour of Britain? Team Sky?
The first port of call for me would be the race organiser. It's basically their shout. You can then take the campaign to sponsors, teams and BC to garner their support.
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I think it needs some of the teams to start saying that it is wrong. I find it a horrible part of the tour. I quite often watch the highlights with my 12 and 14 year old daughters and the podium girls convey utterly the wrong impression.
I know cycling isn't alone in this, but that in no way makes it right.
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I have many many thoughts on this and think the petition is a fab idea and you should target the Tour of Britain!
For now though, quickly, if you want your petition to be taken seriously you need to get the details right! 'Ban' only has one N and the UCI is the Union Cycliste Internationale
Ooh and maybe 'ban' is the wrong word as it suggests the podium girls have done something wrong??
Good luck!
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Hiya,
It's been a while since I've been on here.. I've been chatting over on the Tour De France 2015 thread about this article I read last night about podium girls over at Pretty Damned Fast.com - pls read here:
http://www.prettydamnedfast.com/blog/2015/7/5/nopodiumgirls
and a resulting petition:
https://www.change.org/p/union-cycling-internationale-bann-podium-girls-from-all-cycling-events
Wanted to ask you all about ways you think of approaching this subject and ways of encouraging race organisers to make the experience of watching cycle races more female friendly - with a hope that that in turn will boost female cyclists taking up the sport, and maybe also to boost the coverage of women's races.
I wondered whether the petition above is a little too world-wide to make much of a difference - and whether you had any better ideas. It would be great to get LFGSS behind a campaign. But what campaign? - petitioning British Cycling? Tour of Britain? Team Sky?