Samuele Zoccarato

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• abstractengineer17-09-2026
  Sex sells, The ad definitely helps the popularity of SS and the Platform. It will also detract from sports side for sportswomen. You cannot prevent SS, the predominant male viewers from jumping to conclusions, from other sportswomen to follow suit or most sportswomen from being objectified by male fans. What can be done is to prevent direct objectification like was done with Pogi in the Vuelta. Also coercion should be prevented as has happened in some cycling teams
• jad2917-09-2026
  I guess I will be alone and agree with patrick, I thought he would also end up 2nd before the crash, and felt robbed that I didn’t get to see it play out. not a remco fan boy, but I do appreciate his honesty, instead of what we get from nearly all the other riders, he must have got it from his dad!
• wrsty17-09-2026
  A rider of his calibre is more than capable of winning every grand tour GC more than once. That's an even more elite club
• wrsty17-09-2026
  What they said about the goal being the GC battle open right to the end - that's the double-edged sword of having a crowd-drawing overwhelming favourite. Sure, they might draw the viewers in some respects - but if GC is sewn up by the first rest day, it's going to make the rest of the race less exciting. Having that huge favourite win some stages THEN crash out was almost the best scenario they could've hoped for. All the positives of the big fella, but none of the tail off as the lead becomes cemented and "oh he's gone solo with 50km to go zzzz" deja vu. It was crazy to see breakaways getting 10 minutes plus away, and surviving day after day.
• Vpotts17-09-2026
  Yup, I have doubts he'll ever come back after winning. He'll probably do another Giro, TdF double though.
• mij17-09-2026
  Yeah just looked at it again. Demi looked pretty hot on that specialized cover. But that’s not objectifying oneself??? All of them were dressed in sexy gowns. Not the curves of Sweeney, but more than just a bit suggestive lounging one arm over the back of a couch. Her take is interesting. I guess she forgot about this photo shoot.
• mij17-09-2026
  Your opening comment disqualifies you. “Shrewd businesswoman” you’re looking at her and assuming she isn’t shrewd, hence the quotes. So you’re looking at her and assuming she is not smart just because she looks like that. Women can be smart and sexy. Next time Demi appears on a specialized home page in a sultry evening gown I’ll remember your words. Demi, Lotte, and the stars were all dressed up looking good. Ever watch the NFL? How many offensive lineman that at 6-8 and 320 lbs are given the modeling opportunities of Ronaldo. And NFL lineman consistently test as the smartest people in the room. You don’t need to watch the ad. You don’t need to use the platform. Sure Demi can grandstand about this, but last I checked she was against women that were too skinny - PFP. Now she’s against women that are too curvy??? Funny. I guess everyone is just perfect if they fit into her definition of perfect. Otherwise she will protest.
• wrsty17-09-2026
  God is there anything more insufferable than some Stage Mother shrieking about their obnoxious little sh*t from the sidelines?
• wrsty17-09-2026
  Too bad it's rather a large step. And now he's going to get gazumped by Del Toro and Seixas
• wrsty17-09-2026
  Even if you buy into that guff about her being a "shrewd businesswoman" etc - she does not operate in a vacuum. How she presents herself, how she makes her money, what people expect of her in the context of her "talents" reflects on every other woman, and impressionable young man who is presented with this model of "what a woman is, what a woman does for money/respect" - it's revolting, and I fully back the world tour riders and any other women just daring to exist in this current world for being outraged by it. And so what if they made an effort in their headshots? What does that mean? that they are "asking for it" if you find those pictures attractive? What year is it, seriously? There's a million ways to advertise sports betting, as noxious as the whole thing is, that don't involve denigrating half the global population as mindless, sex puppets with no agency.