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Adam Becket

Tweets of the week: E3 Saxo Classic idiocy, Geraint Thomas has a haircut, and pizza with candles?

Geraint Thomas with social media posts overlaid.

You know that Belgian bike race which produces those stupid sexist, crude posters to advertise itself? Well, yes, it has done it again. It's 2024, and the E3 Saxo Classic is still being deliberately horrible to promote itself.

The less said about it the better, as it took all the oxygen it needed last week, and the homophobic cartoon post has now been deleted and apologised for, but it does seem insane that this kind of thing is still happening. That's not the point though, they know they're offensive - 2011 and 2014's objectified women, and 2015's was even worse, with some casual sexual assault thrown in. The point is to court controversy.

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