'There are a lot of teams that will burn out their athlete for their contract, and that will be it for them' - how to combat REDs, one of the biggest problems in modern cycling

Veronica Ewers signs something on a table dressed in pink.

Last week, world champion Magdeleine Vallieres revealed that her stomach had once been grabbed in an attempt to curtail her eating, and that she had been “blackmailed” with food.

After the Tour de France Femmes, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot's weight loss was headline news. Last week, Veronica Ewers told Cycling Weekly that a physician had told her that the loss of her period was “normal”.