Marta Bastianelli

But sometimes, obviously, for someone who knows me, here are the professors, or the athletic professor, I don't know why.

of physical education obviously he knows it and so every now and then he asks him some questions the other day they did a job in class on fair play then I told him what you know and yes I know it when I came with you to the races I saw something I saw something so anyway I hope to have transmitted good to them here

I hope not.

Whether I heard it or not.

I hope not, because motherhood is something that only women can have.

It can be managed, you have shown it.

Then it is manageable, especially in today's times, even more than the ones before.

Because in fact, until the World Tour was born and until there was also the possibility... You were referring to those years there, in reality.

Yes, yes, yes, the years before.

Maybe it can happen, or maybe it can happen that some athlete has put the problem on his own, without someone else having told him or imposed it on him.

Because actually for many athletes cycling then, even if it was not as rich as it is now, but it was a much more popular and poor sport from an economic point of view,

Era uno sport che per qualcuna comunque quel poco serviva, specialmente per le straniere.

E finché non arrivava il ciclismo World Tour, noi al mondo, e non dico fesserie, eravamo soltanto in due ad avere figli.

Cioè io e un'altra ragazza lituana, che è la Lele Vite, che lei è stata per tantissimi anni e corre ancora nel Vaiano, lituana, però in gruppo eravamo noi due, che avevamo figli.

Sì, le altre era oltre che ingestibile, oltre che comunque…

you know, stop, resume.

There was not yet that, let's say, that theory or even that thought there.

And so I was a bit like, oh God, I was pregnant, now I have to resume running.

Then, after me, someone else came, in short, but then they started running again, really.

Yes, then I had just...