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Dani Ostanek

'Breaking the taboo' – Tour de France Femmes riders highlight issues of low rider weight and disrupted menstrual cycles

BOURG-EN-BRESSE, FRANCE - AUGUST 01: Cedrine Kerbaol of France and Team EF Education-Oatly prior to the 4th Tour de France Femmes 2025, Stage 7 a 159.7km stage from Bourg-en-Bresse to Chambery / #UCIWWT / on August 01, 2025 in Bourg-en-Bresse, France. (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images).

A year on from finishing sixth at the Tour de France Femmes, Cédrine Kerbaol is deep in the midst of the GC battle once again this July. The Breton racer has been making headlines away from the racing, too, emerging as a spokeswoman of sorts on the topic of rider health.

Kerbaol, who has a diploma in nutrition studies, recently told French newspaper L'Humanité that cycling is in a "dangerous moment" with pressure to lose weight for races risking negative side-effects to the riders' health.

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