There are bigger problems in the world than this.
There’s very few problems in the world that there aren’t bigger problems in the world than. It doesn’t mean that they should all be ignored.
My view is that, whatever the individual choices of the women involved are, the podium girl is a symbol of the ‘spoils of victory’ – the laurels, the trophy cup, the jersey, the trophy woman.
And that’s why it’s bad – women as an incidental adjunct to victory, objects to be won by the fastest and the fittest, willing to symbolically present themselves to whoever the winner happens to be.