article_snippet: " is the poster strapline for the elite E3 Harelbeke competition in Belgium, accompanied by that gloved cyclist's hand poised to pinch a woman's bottom.
article_snippet: A week earlier, he was also pictured on the E3 Harelbeke podium, making an ass-grabbing motion towards another flower girl.
article_snippet: E3 Harelbeke's organizers chose to celebrate he antics in E3 Harelbeke's organizers 2015 campaign, sparking a global debate about sexism in cycling that has raced far beyond the billboard.
article_snippet: In 2011 organizers opted for a naked woman lying in a field, while the silhouettes of miniature riders traversed her bare backside.
article_snippet: "A playful nod" Cycling's world governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) has since requested last year's poster featuring a woman straddling three other females be removed, to which the E3 Harelbeke organisers have agreed -- not that the E3 Harelbeke organisers necessarily see last year's poster featuring a woman straddling three other females as offensive the E3 Harelbeke organisers.
article_snippet: The organization launched this campaign as a playful nod to the stage incident two years ago in which a rider got ready to squeeze the buttocks of a flower girl," a rider added.
article_snippet: It's unlikely the image would have been used in a female tournament.
article_snippet: It seems that rather than a podium girl's bottom, the one being put under the spotlight at this event, will be the organizers themselves.
highlights_snippet: Belgium cycling tournament scraps poster of podium girl's bum .
  