Colombia’s women’s cycling team may have to change their uniforms before flying off to compete in Spain’s most important cycling races, unless they’re really up to getting a lot more attention than they’re now getting after running in Italy’s Tour of Tuscany during the weekend.

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Sports fans worldwide have been circulating photos of the women’s team ever since they appeared on stage during the Giro della Toscana press conference in their new cycling outfit.

The red and yellow outfit featured a skin-color fabric just around the sportwomen’s midsection that curiously accentuates the cyclists’ private parts. From first glance, it looked like the girls were nude in the midsection!

Brian Cookson, president of the International Cycling Union (UCI) has come out with a statement saying the uniforms were “unacceptable by any standard of decency.”

Italy’s cycling website Tuttobiciweb headlined, “How sad, the nude look of Colombia” as it showed a photo of the Colombian team in their “nifty little” onesies – another word for jumpsuits – and described how photographers rubbed their eyes almost believing the girls were nude right where they shouldn’t be.

The UK-based Mirror said nobody noticed the questionable color until it was “laid out bare for all to see.” When the six athletes did take to the stage in their uniforms, all eyes just naturally wandered south towards the nude-looking strip around the groin areas.

Cycyling fans immediately started tweeting the design was “just wrong” and is a “general disaster,” although one added it was a "genital disaster."

But it now appears that the uniforms were not new. The team appeared in another photo in the same uniforms while running in a local race in August.

When the issue turned to who designed the kits, Carlos Orlando Ferreira Pinzón, president of Cycling League of Bogota,said team member Angie Tatiana Rojas designed the uniforms, which were then approved by team sponsors and partners prior to production.

Speaking in Bogota, Angie Rojas said team members do not see anything wrong with the uniforms “As an athlete, as a woman, as the cyclist that I am, I would not be ashamed with this kind of design,” Rojas said. “I think the feeling we have is more curiosity and amazement.”

Would they still be wearing those kits when they go to the 2014 UCI Road World Championships in Ponferrada, Spain next week? That’s something to watch out for.

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