Brailsford said Wiggins could not have done because the bus had left by the time he had completed his podium, media and anti-doping duties.
When Lewis walks to the podium on media day here today, expect reporters to flock to Lewis in droves beyond the normal posse that would have stalked him.
At 11 15, meeting with the hall management staff, Mr. O'Connor had to figure out how to get more local media people onto the podium, at least briefly.
Within a few minutes, Rick Cerrone, the Yankees' media rep, had assumed podium position to explain the order of operations for "the formal portion of the program" — speeches, the obligatory donning of the pinstripes, the photo op.
"During a crush of photographers at the awards' podium, a media member with a shoulder-mounted video camera pushed and surged towards the stage, turned and hit Tiger Woods in the mouth," his agent Mark Steinberg said.
You want the spotlight, the soapbox, the podium, the media attention, the fame, the power, and the adoration of your fans -- but you don't really want to be President of the United States.
Newton was on a podium for the media session, calmly answering questions for about 30 minutes.
It was, in fact, in the pages of The Sydney Morning Herald that the verb podium first attracted media attention back in 1992.
"So many people want to speak at the conventions who never get to the podium," said Daniel Manatt, media director of FreedomChannel.com, which is based in Washington.
Four hours before the scheduled news conference, he marched to the podium in the media center at Atlanta Motor Speedway holding a flat metal lid.
