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By: Episode 24: Can we talk about racing, please? | We Have Pelotonitis

Episode 24: Can we talk about racing, please? | We Have Pelotonitis — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:59:05 +0000

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By: dumbfoundedbyidiocy

dumbfoundedbyidiocy — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:41:00 +0000

I’m surprised that Pat McQuaid hasn’t followed in the footsteps of that other giant of the sporting world, Sepp Blatter, in suggesting that the most obvious way to gain more attention for women’s cycling is to have the riders wear smaller, tighter fitting shorts. Of course, they could just do away with the kit and do a Pendleton instead – but have the team colours painted on by a mixture of sponsors / lottery winners before each race. If Pat chooses not to take me up on my idea (though, given his past history of fighting injustice in South Africa, I can’t see why he wouldn’t), perhaps one way of increasing coverage of women’s cycling is that TV companies who buy the big races – Grand Tours / Classics – should also be required to show the equivalent women’s races on their stations as well as the men’s. That way, sponsors with deeper pockets, might just be persuaded to get involved, thereby starting off a small snowball down the hill of cycling equality.

By: PeterMaich

PeterMaich — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 22:55:54 +0000

I dont watch women’s cycling because there isn’t women’s cycling to watch. It needs a presence and some solid marketing to get the exposure to attract sponsors and fans. There are not even women’s races at club level so the breeding grounds for the profile and exposure is not there. You are all lumped into club races and this is mainly men. I think that the market could be massive for sponsors as there are a lot of women riding and they are all consumers in a big way and for now untapped.As for the drugs I am sick of all the BS surrounding the topic, riders that fess up in the last days of their career and others that take the “I had no choice” line etc. All self serving BS and poor me, with that sort of life view I can imagine that they did need drugs to perform. Throw the lot out and punish everyone that uses or used drugs to cheat in our sport. Two feet in or two feet out – we clean up or we dont. There are no half measures involved if the outcome we are after is a clean sport.