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Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Finalists Announced for First Ever Digital Revolution Awards February 8, 2021 GMT NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 8, 2021-- Shortlists for Tenth Revolution Group’s first ever Digital Revolution Awards have been announced, with organizations and professionals from across the cloud ecosystem being recognized and celebrated for their outstanding performances. Finalists represent the most innovative, boundary-pushing organizations from around the world. Nominee shortlists across the awards’ 18 categor...

Apparel company. >> well, what it is really doing is -- instead of focusing on stephanie's ability or a surfer's ability, what it does is just emphasize the image, and detracts from the ability of surfers. and we have a new crop of surfers that are the best ones that i have ever seen. and it is just -- it really takes away from what the women are doing as far as their ability goes. >> what do you make of it, amanda? because being such a star athlete yourself, but also having posed for play boy, you are somebody who is mixed a bit. your athletic ability and your sexuality? >> yeah, for me, i wa...

Okay with it. >> when you see athletes like amanda or in this case, stephanie, doing these photo shoots, do you feel like it then pressures other surfers or other athletes that are not so inclined to have to tout their own sexuality if they don't want to do that? they just want to play a sport. >> yeah, i do, i think it establishes a paradigm to establish who is -- establish who is sexier. and in the studies i looked at, the woman who is sexualized, it actually diminishes her athletic ability, and it doesn't sell events. so i have my personal feelings around it. and what the new studies show i...

Okay with it. >> when you see athletes like amanda or in this case, stephanie, doing these photo shoots, do you feel like it then pressures other surfers or other athletes that are not so inclined to have to tout their own sexuality if they don't want to do that? they just want to play a sport. >> yeah, i do, i think it establishes a paradigm to establish who is -- establish who is sexier. and in the studies i looked at, the woman who is sexualized, it actually diminishes her athletic ability, and it doesn't sell events. so i have my personal feelings around it. and what the new studies show i...

This woman has 10s of thousands of signatures in protest of that ad. amanda beard is herself a model and has posed for magazines like playboy, so we think there may be a difference of opinion on this. we appreciate it, corey. what did you find so offensive about the ad, because women and the sexualization of sports is nothing new. >> no, it is nothing new. the thing that was most difficult about this was that it was for a surf event and we didn't see any surfing, whatsoever. >> that didn't seem like a surfer to you? >> no, not even close. >> we have to be in agreement on that. even amanda, i t...