Pozzato

Tusher
Tusher Posts: 2,762
edited December 2009 in Pro race
Is it true he's posed for Playboy? (Or should that be Playgirl?)

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  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    First Cav, then Vino and now Pozzato.

    Be careful or you're going to start getting a "reputation"......
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    Sigh. No-one could replace Cav.


    Just a boring morning at the end of a boring week of annual leave and I wanted a good giggle to forward to my girlfriends.

    Tuttobici have the story http://www.tuttobiciweb.it/index.php?pa ... 25435&tp=n
    but no photographs.
  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    A lot of cyclists get modelling contracts. It's normal. I believe Pippo has done quite a lot of it previously.
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Bhima wrote:
    A lot of cyclists get modelling contracts. It's normal. I believe Pippo has done quite a lot of it previously.

    Really? Apart from Hincapie and his own jeans company... Name three.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    I couldn't name 3 male models, let alone 3 male cyclist models.
  • Echo et les Boniments
    Echo et les Boniments Posts: 142
    Former Swiss pro Steve Zampieri was also a part-time model.

    About the thread, it's only an overlong article about Pippo published by Playboy magazine, edizione Italiana. The pictures are only designed to make him look sharp. Now that free porn's available all over the Internet, people actually buy Playboy for the articles y'know so in Italy, Playboy's a lot like GQ or Maxim these days, and tells its readers about the weird wild wonderful life of a young top cyclist who lives in Montecarlo and who is also a self-confessed womanizer. Fascinating stuff :roll:
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    edited December 2009
    Didn't Andreas Kloden do some eurotrash-suit photoshoots back in the early 00's when he was good?

    Tony Bell "modelled" for some jazz-mag

    We only need one more.
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    As well as those mentioned above, you have Mario Cipollini, Cavendish, Pendleton, Di Luca, Cancellara, etc... There's loads that do it, including some lesser-known members of the peloton.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Matti Breschel was a model before he turned pro.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Echo et les Boniments wrote:
    Former Swiss pro Steve Zampieri was also a part-time model.

    About the thread, it's only an overlong article about Pippo published by Playboy magazine, edizione Italiana. The pictures are only designed to make him look sharp. :

    Sharp?

    He looks like a lobby pianist from the late '80s. Moss Bros are going to be angry when he returns their suit and they find a chainring mark on the back of the jacket
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Echo et les Boniments
    Echo et les Boniments Posts: 142
    edited December 2009
    Absolutely. But then you have to realise that Playboy isn't really a sharp magazine either.
  • Slapshot
    Slapshot Posts: 211
    Pippo tackle out does nowt for me..... VP on the other hand.... :wink:
    http://justcycling.myfastforum.org
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Slapshot wrote:
    Pippo tackle out does nowt for me..... VP on the other hand.... :wink:

    VP has tackle? :shock:
  • Slapshot
    Slapshot Posts: 211
    andyp wrote:
    Slapshot wrote:
    Pippo tackle out does nowt for me..... VP on the other hand.... :wink:

    VP has tackle? :shock:

    You know what I meant.... :roll:
    http://justcycling.myfastforum.org
  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    mmmm, yes, I would call it tackle as well.

    Although generally the male of the species photographs better with their tackle obscured.

    Boonen on the massage couch balancing a ball on his behind was interesting. Think it was the cheeky grin that did it though.

    Away to find a link..........
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Bhima wrote:
    As well as those mentioned above, you have Mario Cipollini, Cavendish, Pendleton, Di Luca, Cancellara, etc... There's loads that do it, including some lesser-known members of the peloton.


    Don't confuse cyclists pictured in a magazine wearing civvies in an ad for some product as 'modelling'.


    None of those people have actually modelled.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Bhima wrote:
    As well as those mentioned above, you have Mario Cipollini, Cavendish, Pendleton, Di Luca, Cancellara, etc... There's loads that do it, including some lesser-known members of the peloton.


    Don't confuse cyclists pictured in a magazine wearing civvies in an ad for some product as 'modelling'.


    None of those people have actually modelled.
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Pokerface wrote:
    Bhima wrote:
    As well as those mentioned above, you have Mario Cipollini, Cavendish, Pendleton, Di Luca, Cancellara, etc... There's loads that do it, including some lesser-known members of the peloton.


    Don't confuse cyclists pictured in a magazine wearing civvies in an ad for some product as 'modelling'.


    None of those people have actually modelled.

    That was my point.

    Although hasn't the charming Miss Pendleton modelled for Oakley?
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Pokerface wrote:
    Bhima wrote:
    As well as those mentioned above, you have Mario Cipollini, Cavendish, Pendleton, Di Luca, Cancellara, etc... There's loads that do it, including some lesser-known members of the peloton.


    Don't confuse cyclists pictured in a magazine wearing civvies in an ad for some product as 'modelling'.


    None of those people have actually modelled.

    That was my point.

    Although hasn't the charming Miss Pendleton modelled for Oakley?

    That would be 'endorsing' a product. A model is more of a nameless body that clothing is hung off of. So to speak.

    You can do both - but basically if the only reason you are in an ad is because you are famous for something else besides modelling - then you're not really a model.
  • The Other McHoy
    The Other McHoy Posts: 161
    I saw Pozatto this morning cycling between Javea and Denia, gorgeous devil was sitting on the front of the team training ride.

    Good day for team spotting as only 10 mins previously the Quickstep team were rolling into Denia with Boonen still resplendent in the Belgium championship jersey.

    I think I'll pop along to their hotel in the morning with my camera to see if any of them are up for a bit of modelling.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Pokerface wrote:

    You can do both - but basically if the only reason you are in an ad is because you are famous for something else besides modelling - then you're not really a model.

    You are the CEO of the Derek Zoolander Foundation and ICMFP
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    Well, that was a fascinating few hours looking for the naked Tommeke-on-massage-couch photo.

    Never found it, but I am stunned by what else I found. So many photographs of young, half naked male athletes out there.

    Just as well I was on the lap-top and not the Manse computer.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    I think you are refering to the following.

    boonen.jpg

    There is one of Di Luca naked in an armchair if that is what you are after...
    Contador is the Greatest
  • dulldave
    dulldave Posts: 949
    I believe Bernhard Kohl is modelling now that he can't race. :evil:
    Scottish and British...and a bit French
  • thomasmc
    thomasmc Posts: 814
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I think you are refering to the following.

    boonen.jpg

    There is one of Di Luca naked in an armchair if that is what you are after...

    Yea, but who took the photo? :wink:
  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    Yup, that's it FF! Thanks for the link. He's sooo cute.

    Em, have you got the Di Luca link as well? May as well lower the tone of the thread altogether.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    He'd want to get that hemorrhoid looked at. It can't be very comfortable on the cobbles.


    boonen.jpg
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    Tusher wrote:
    Em, have you got the Di Luca link as well? May as well lower the tone of the thread altogether.

    There's quite a few of them. This is the only one I can find at the moment:

    13935_166944352098_524952098_2960457_3563193_n.jpg
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I think you are refering to the following.

    boonen.jpg

    There is one of Di Luca naked in an armchair if that is what you are after...


    You are a very scary person
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Bhima wrote:
    Tusher wrote:
    Em, have you got the Di Luca link as well? May as well lower the tone of the thread altogether.

    There's quite a few of them. This is the only one I can find at the moment:

    13935_166944352098_524952098_2960457_3563193_n.jpg


    As are you.


    All hail the Goblin King!
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

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