UCI unveil Pinocchio as mascot for 2013 world champs

dvntie

Yes they actually did


http://www.sbs.com.au/cyclingcentral/news/40581/uci-unveil-pinocchio-as-mascot-for-2013-world-championships

Link to Italian site here
http://www.toscana2013.it/

buffalo

I thought this was a piss-take... that's hilarious.

The Big Red Button

That's actually brilliant!

Redmond101

Nose should be alot bigger with the amount of lies the UCI has made

dvntie

buffalo wrote: »

I thought this was a piss-take... that's hilarious.

So did I that's why I went looking for the actual site and there he was
I'm surprised he's not wearing a USPS or discovery channel jersey

macnab

I can see the trial now: Pinocchio did you take performance enhancing drugs........

niceonetom

They're beyond satire at this stage. The Onion would be proud of that one.

Diarmuid

Photoshop mcquaid&pinocchio mash up anyone?

buffalo

My OH also asked why is he standing on a wheel in the below image? Can't be good for it.

RobertFoster

Why is he wearing a traffic cone on his head and a helmet under his arm?

kincsem

That is like shooting yourself in the foot, then reloading.

buffalo

RobertFoster wrote: »

Why is he wearing a traffic cone on his head

That's no traffic cone!

greenmat

Bound to happen




http://www.flickr.com/photos/89274238@N07/8128730742/sizes/l/in/photostream/

doozerie

Some of the (few!) trim ex-pro riders that hang around race finishes have an awful hungry look about them (Hinault, I'm thinking of you, Roche looks well fed already by comparison), and even a hapless little wooden boy probably has more eating on him than most current pro riders. Poor old Pinocchio will be a nervous paranoid wreck in no time.

Didn't he get eaten by a whale once, or was that just a cover-up of an incident involving an off-season Jan Ullrich?

CaoimH_in

^^^
Quality post.


It's actually a pretty good mascot. Pinocchio is transparent, always optimistic, magical, and altruistic. So ya, it's not actually that silly of an idea when we think about it.

dvntie

I had a deeper look into the site and found this little gem
http://www.toscana2013.it/?page=12

Mycroft H

It represents Verbruggen still pulling strings at the UCI

happytramp

dvntie wrote: »

I had a deeper look into the site and found this little gem
http://www.toscana2013.it/?page=12

The level of convoluted nonsense that the Italian organisers come out with for their races is hilarious. Check this out.....

http://www.toscana2013.it/?page=5&idvideogallery=51&idcategoria=

Beasty

Just waiting for the merchandising page to be up and running - I'll definitely be in for one of the Pinocchio jerseys

Lusk Doyle

CaoimH_in wrote: »

^^^
Quality post.


It's actually a pretty good mascot. Pinocchio is transparent, always optimistic, magical, and altruistic. So ya, it's not actually that silly of an idea when we think about it.

Hold on a sec. Pinocchio was an inanimate piece of wood brought to life by some magic dust right? Surely he stands for the benefits of doping rather than anything else

Chips Lovell

Time for a new avatar methinks...