'It's a temporary trend': Giro d'Italia organisers stand firm as other races scrap podium girls

Giro organisers buck the trend as they stand by the use of podium girls

Podium girls at the 2017 Giro d'Italia

(Image credit: Yuzuru Sunada)

As the Tour de France reportedly moves to do away with podium girls for the 2018 race, Giro d'Italia organisers said that they would make no such move, describing the decisions of many other events both in cycling and in other sports as a "temporary trend".

Speaking at the Abu Dhabi Tour last week, Giro d'Italia race director Mauro Vegni explained that he saw no reason for making any change to the role as part of a wider move towards gender equality and greater rights for women.

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