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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.
graunch
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?