Podium Girls

knedlicky

In Qatar, only the women's races have podium 'girls'.

brakelever

you sure either of them are girls ????????????

emadden

I like the "no chamois" look

Le Commentateur

Now for some real athletes.




Not sure about those compression socks...

Le Commentateur

Whoops, thought I was in Cake Stop for a moment... :oops:

Please forgive the utterly innappropriate and outrageous image above.

Gazzaputt

Le Commentateur wrote:

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Crack walnuts with them.

emadden

I suppose I would.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMtjmQRu6lU&feature=related

mrushton

For some reason i'm reminded of Lucy Liu in 'Payback'

deejay

brakelever wrote:

you sure either of them are girls ????????????

The term is Bin Bags I think so how can you tell.

Le Commentateur

Calling all wanna-be podium girls!

The Tour of Britain is looking for 'presentation hostesses' to kiss winning riders at this year's race - and organisers insist there is nothing patronising about a £50-a-day job


Happy news for women looking to break into the male dominated world of cycle racing: the Tour of Britain, our island's humble version of the Gallic road race, is looking for a woman to take part.

The bad news is that the chosen lady will not be giving the gents what-for on her bicycle, but looking pretty on the podium, kissing the sweaty cheek of whichever man win's the day's stage.

For the princely sum of £50 per eight-hour day (plus accommodation and expenses), you could become a "presentation hostess" for the eight-day men-only race, which starts in Rochdale on 11 September.

"We've got open minds about who the lucky lady will be, but ideally we'd like to be able to give someone their big break, perhaps an aspiring model or a drama student who is trying to get ahead in their career," said a tour spokesman.

"It's not all glamour and kissing the winning cyclists though, as you'll be the face of The Tour, being shown on the ITV4 highlights and in the hundreds of podium photos that are sent around the world showing the yellow jersey and various other winners."

What is crushingly depressing is that the hostesses (known widely as podium girls and festishised – http://bleacherreport.com/articles/4137 ... years-past – all over the internet) tend to be top cyclists themselves. The "winner" will join Lauren Bason, who rides for Wolverhampton Wheelers, on the podium. And at this year's Tour de France, Claire Pedrono, cycling champion of Brittany, was given the "honour" or holding up the chalkboard with the information about the riders' times.

Isn't it sad that despite the UK boasting some of the world's finest female cyclists in Nicole Cooke, Victoria Pendleton and Lizzie Armitstead, the only visible way for women to get involved in the UK's biggest professional bike race is to give out the prizes?

Alastair Grant, the Tour's commercial manager, doesn't think so. "It's very much part of the history and culture of cycling – for better or worse – that there are presentation hostesses involved in the podium presentations at the end of the stage. Their role is not to stand there and look pretty by any means; they are there to coordinate the activity that goes on. They will be bringing our VIP dignitaries on the stage, handing the trophies to them to hand to the cyclists, they help the riders to put the presentation jerseys on."

If you want the very important job of helping grown men put their jumpers on, email kathryn@thetour.co.uk



Helen Pidd
guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... of-britain

Pross

I'd have never have guessed what paper that article had come from unless it said at the bottom

Isn't it sad that despite the UK boasting some of the world's finest female cyclists in Nicole Cooke, Victoria Pendleton and Lizzie Armitstead, the only visible way for women to get involved in the UK's biggest professional bike race is to give out the prizes?

What's sad is that a journalist writing this piece doesn't appear to have heard of Emma Pooley and seems to only be aware of cyclists that have had a bit of TV coverage.

Pross

Thanks to Ms Pidd for the heads up, just checked out and fetishised over Claire Pedrono - very nice indeed However, she is also given a job nearly as important as the podium girl roll - sitting on the back of a motorbike holding up the chalk board so it's not blatant sexism

knedlicky

Pross wrote:

Isn't it sad that despite the UK boasting some of the world's finest female cyclists in Nicole Cooke, Victoria Pendleton and Lizzie Armitstead, the only visible way for women to get involved in the UK's biggest professional bike race is to give out the prizes?

What's sad is that a journalist writing this piece doesn't appear to have heard of Emma Pooley and seems to only be aware of cyclists that have had a bit of TV coverage.

I agree. Nicole Cooke, who’s that?

Emma Pooley did the middle distance route of the Alpenbrevet in Switzerland last Saturday, i.e. 174 km and 5036 m climbing, in pretty cold and rainy conditions, in just over 7 hours. She finished 1st woman and 4th overall (of about 475 who did that same route). Just a training jaunt!

This is her that day on the old St. Gotthard Pass road, which was used for part of the route.

Le Commentateur

I love that climb. Luckily the cobbles are fairly smooth except for a couple of rutted corners on the knotty hairpin section.

frenchfighter

dupe

Slapshot

frenchfighter wrote:

oh dear.......now what could we caption this with.... :roll:

inkyfingers

Now that's what I call living the dream......

RichN95.

Slapshot wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

oh dear.......now what could we caption this with.... :roll:

"Round 3 of America's Next Top Pornstar"

Slapshot

RichN95 wrote:

Slapshot wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

oh dear.......now what could we caption this with.... :roll:

"Round 3 of America's Next Top Pornstar"

Hutarovich or the Podium Girl????

frenchfighter

knedlicky

Here's another from the Giro (2009)

frenchfighter

del

frenchfighter

Pross

It has to be said but whatever the ToB lacks as a quality race it more than makes up for in podium girls. Trying to track down pictures is hard but worth it, love their outfits but they seem a bit small for the girls! :shock:

Pross

frenchfighter

First one is great. 2nd is very good.

frenchfighter

Photos by Robert Lampard



And : )

mrushton

Those are 'aero' dresses designed to minimise wind drag.

Pross

That bottom one is worryingly out of context in this thread! :shock: The girls look great though, the two doing the KoM are even better but I couldn't find any pics

mrushton

How do you mean, 'doing' the KOM?