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An increasing number of female riders, professional and amateur, were resorting to surgery to correct vulval disfigurement. It was well known that one other national squad was regularly prescribing its riders Emla cream, a local anaesthetic, to soothe chronic pain.
Plus Victoria Pendleton had struggled so much to find the right saddle in the run-up to 2012 that British Cycling’s techies designed her a bespoke model, made out of the same silicone used in breast implants.
The women were strongly advised to stop shaving, waxing and depilating.
Another big problem, Burt and chums discovered, was that the kit the girls were given just didn’t fit them properly. One design was supposed to fit all, despite a wide variation in not just thigh circumference but also undercarriage arrangements. “Some of the girls were complaining that their shorts were rucking up, particularly the sprinters, who slam into the saddle at high speed,”
