The Columbian women's team new kit
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what were they thinking
crumbs, that's ... ummm ... awkward ... 🙂
Just makes a joke of women's cycling, just what it doesn't need. Hope the UCI step in.
ay caramba!
What does the back look like ?
Well, they've certainly got some publicity for their sponsors.
Looks very smooth
No one will remember the sponsors!
Is it Veet?
What sponsors? I didn't see any
Oh dear.
The flesh colour is off putting, but I am more worried about the lady on the left with 3 arms....
Looks very smooth
I think you've got your South American countries confused. They're from [i]Colombia[/i].
I like to think I'm broad minded and occassionally inappropriate, but that is truly unpleasant.
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That's a joke, surely?
I follow Brian Cookson on twitter, there have been complaints and he tweeted today that the UCI were going to talk to the team and that he thought it highly inappropriate
Brian Cookson has posted on twitter they are on the case..... stating its unacceptable by any standard of decency, fair enough i would say given what the UCI are tying to do with women's cycling......
Link anyone?
Looks normal to me [url= http://htc columbia women's cycling team]Linky[/url]
Ahhhhhhhhhh now I see iPhone has now caught up and shown the pic. Really not sure about the red arm yellow arm thing , maybe should have gone with two yellow arms . Apart from that it looks dandy!
That's one way to get publicity I guess!
The flesh colour is off putting, but I am more worried about the lady on the left with 3 arms....
Nah, that is the bloke on the right, he has a looooong arm.
Another meaning to the phrase "Full Kit W****r"?
Well, they've certainly got some [s]publicity[/s][b]pubicity[/b] for their sponsors.
FIFY
I don't actually think it looks all that flattering or 'sexy' TBH.
That aside it really doesn't help the status or image of women's cycling does it? I can't really believe that it got in front of press photographers...
The main sponsors were apparently the columbian ministry for sport and the city of Bogota, So I'm sure we all now think of Colombia as an enlightened and forward thinking country...
that's ****ing ace!! 🙂
That's also been shown to be a photo issue as the kit's not new and looks fine (well, at least not indecent) the rest of the time.
It's actually gold as it has been for a couple of years apparently and one of the (female) riders designed it...
It was designed by one of the Team, she's done a few of thier kits in the past, the others look "normal".
I'm not keen, think it rather dergrading and unsuitable, the material used (and that's the main issue when photographing apparently) looks bloomin horrid and fold/creases in the wrong place.
Seriously, they should have known better. 🙄
But they've been riding it for months without issue...
My initial reaction was the same as most - a combination of s****ing and disappointment that women's cycling seemed to be deliberately portraying it in that way.
It seems that it is just a poor design decision that in some circumstances looks bad. Same as white shorts (be it men or women...)
I really don't notice it/see what the fuss is about. They don't look naked. Someone posted it to my FB yesterday and it took me ages to see what it was I was meant to be looking at
And all those going on about it, you don't see them commenting on 'that' men's (Swiss?) team line up photo that pops up every so often
I've looked loads and can't see what everyone else is seeing 😕
But then I'm colour blind so I'm hoping that's the issue and not my stupidity!
It is a bit strange that the lady on the left has 3 arms though.
you don't see them commenting on 'that' men's (Swiss?) team line up photo that pops up every so often
Polish IIRC er.... 🙂
That kit doesn't appear designed to look like nude flesh though, it's just maybe a little tight/thin and has a poor colour choice...
Any chance of seeing what the rears are like?
Is GIS broken?
I don't think it was intentionally meant to look like naked flesh, and probably loks different in 'real life' to the photo.
Here is an old photo of the Men's kit if you haven't seen it already....
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From here:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/colombian-mens-cycling-team-kit-4263636
Perhaps it's just a genuine mistake/misjudgement in terms of colour choice, rather than a specific attempt to degrade women??
If that could use that design principle and make a builders arse type jersey/shorts combo they'd be onto a winner I think
Typical mainstream media and cycling stories. That 'men's team' kit is a completely different team from a couple of years ago 🙄
In fact they also had/have a women's team
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so this kit is degrading to women yet women's beauty and fashion mags are not!!?
This is one upside down messed up world
Media hypocrisy, surely not?!
I honestly can't see what everyone is fussing about? That the gold sections a close in colour to some of the rider's skin?
I can't see any genitalia profiles which isn't always the case with some of the men's kit:
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What about swimmers and sprinters outfits, are they wrong too?
Victorian principles here we come...
nemesis - did you read the link about the men's kit?
It said something about the Colombian team having form for this type of thing having done a similar thing in 2010, with that picture displayed. So, they did mention it was an old kit, rather than make out it was current.
That's why I said 'old photo' in my post...
I did read the link. The men pictured are not the Columbian Men's team from 2010 or any other year. They're from the ITALIAN 2010 Footon-Servetto-Fuji pro cycling team who rode the TdF and so on.
The link seems to have been made based on poor reading of another article showing other bad team kits. It just happens that theirs was also gold.
So there's a load of drama about a "new" demeaning kit which was designed by one of the riders and approved by her team mates and is actually 9-months old. It's been mentioned elsewhere that the colour is gold and the photo is shitty. Combine this with the really stupid association with the Footon team from 2010 and you've got to admit this is the very worst of journalism combined with the very worst of hand wringing.
Cookson and anyone else who is waving the exploitation flag needs to have a word with themselves.
They're from the ITALIAN 2010 Footon-Servetto-Fuji pro cycling team who rode the TdF and so on
Quite. And with a new sponsor in 2011 won the Vuelta with the not at all dodgy Cobo
Honest as the day is long, guvnor...
Reckon Cookson panicked and wanted to show that his support for women's cycling wasn't just words... I think that Nicole Cooke's tweet triggered that which I thought interesting.
Bit disappointed in Cooke really; you'd think she would be keener to point out problems where they exist (it's not like there aren't a lot in women's sports) rather than finding something, creating a problem and then going quiet.
Well, I'm sure we've all over-reacted to something in the past. It's the not apologising that's the issue really.