No more podium girls at the Tour de France?

It's just an interesting topic to discuss.

In real life very few people would give a flying f@£$ if they are not there...

well if the TdF organisers do get rid of their podium girls, having solved what they clearly felt was their most pressing gender equality issue, Im sure it will free up their time to think about putting on a decent set of stages for La Course for a change...

About time. The whole concept is an anachronism.

On balance, I think this would be positive.

TdF podium girls are fairly tame on the scale of objectification but they do contribute to the cumulative effect and they aren't really adding much to the 'product' (unlike, say, the use of attractive people to model clothes).

It's been suggested elsewhere that young riders could be asked to do the presentations - while I don't think podium girls are a terrible thing, I think using young riders would is a much better idea.

too bad, it was an opportunity to show girls from ethnic minorities; between gender equality and promoting diversity, it's hard to chose i presume. Political correctness has its own set of priorities.

Think you should ask the ladies if they objected to doing this job?

I'm assuming the jobs would have been advertised or there was some form of recruitment, no one forced them to do it?

But hey my wife and daughter think I'm a sexist male anyway.

But I won't miss them, it's all about who's won the stage or is in the leaders jersey.

I assume there will be equal pressure on, well everyone, who uses good looking guys and gals as models to sell their kit. Surely any company is going to use attractive models to market their products and there's no difference here, I'd actually say that the problem is with the people who are sexualising or objectifying the ladies who are just doing another pr job.

Seems a good move given Team Sky's lack of testosterone.