Podiums and Prizes

[Samu Cuenca]

Di Luca might only have finished second in that race, but it looks like he was the only one who had ever previously held a wine glass in his hand.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Lutsenko and a giant olive in Jaén.

Chocolaty prizes in the Ronde de Mouscron.

 

[StryderHells]

Riders don't generally win the podium girls.
Though, wasn't there are rider a few years back who managed to score a podium girl? Married her, and everything.

George Hincapie married a podium girl.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

George Hincapie married a podium girl.

So did Gert Steegmans.

 

[RedheadDane]

George Hincapie married a podium girl.

Might have been him I was referring to.

 

[yaco]

Koen De Kort married an Aussie women who was part of the TDU - Unsure if she was a podium girl.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Koen De Kort married an Aussie women who was part of the TDU - Unsure if she was a podium girl.

She was, and so was O'Grady's wife apparently.

 

[RedheadDane]

Drenthe takes the cake for best prize. Literally!

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Drenthe takes the cake for best prize. Literally!

Alongside the TV and the Air fryer.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Dwars door Vlaanderen.

Why?

 

[BR2]

Dwars door Vlaanderen.

Why?

Oh come on, that's a good one...

 

[Armchair cyclist]

I'm sure it will have pride of place in her trophy display cabinet.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I'm sure it will have pride of place in her trophy display cabinet.

Laporte got a brown one. I think the worst thing was that they had Lidl Champagne for the podium ceremonies. That doesn't exactly scream World Tour nor ProSeries to me.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Dwars door Vlaanderen.

Why?

They always get a horse at Dwars door Vlaanderen. I think it has something to do with the Horse racing circuit in the finish town of Waregem.

On animals of the equine family, I think the donkey from KBK looks better than this horse

 

[Samu Cuenca]

In some races you win a small horse, in others you'll get a full-grown man (or a lifelike wax figure)

 

[QueenStagiaire]

In some races you win a small horse, in others you'll get a full-grown man.

Is he handed over to the new winner each year?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Is he handed over to the new winner each year?

Yes, but they have to thoroughly wash it first, which is why it appears to have shrunk a bit since the nineties.

 

[SHAD0W93]

Yes, but they have to thoroughly wash it first, which is why it appears to have shrunk a bit since the nineties.

 

[RedheadDane]

If you win the Tour du Doubs, you get a giant bell:

(If you finish 2nd or 3rd, you get what looks to me like a box of wine. Seems like a better prize...)

Last year, the entire podium got bells!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

(If you finish 2nd or 3rd, you get what looks to me like a box of wine. Seems like a better prize...)

It's actually smoked sausages, which are better for your teeth than a bell.

 

[DNP-Old]

In some races you win a small horse, in others you'll get a full-grown man (or a lifelike wax figure)

The man on the right has more Vuelta stage wins than the man on the left, how crazy is that?

 

[RedheadDane]

It's actually smoked sausages, which are better for your teeth than a bell.

I think some prizes are not meant for consuming.

 

[rallybanana]

They're wearing the bell all wrong. You need a Swiss person to show how to do it.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

A stage win in Romandie gets you an incomplete wheel of cheese to give to your brother

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Normally you have to win the Itzulia or CSS to get to wear a silly floppy hat, but if you ride for EF, you can wear one on the pre-stage presentation platform.