Marta Bastianelli

No, I think this is a very sensitive topic, especially for a woman, for a young girl.

I lived for years when I won the World Cup, which I don't say I touched the anorexia, but little was missing.

But I wasn't that.

I was fixed that I had to be like that.

Then I won the World Cup, for better or worse, everything was fine, but I wasn't that.

Because I won, I did second in the World Cup, in the World Cup of Verona, I did...

European, second, third, etc., in a certain way.

Then something happened that unfortunately happens to many young people, so in that case it happened to me too, that I had to see myself in that particular way and it went well and so I won a world championship, for the most part it went well and so, but that was not my, let's say, athlete perception.

Well, let's say I'm very sly and sincere and I say only one thing that then we can interpret it as we want.

Unfortunately, I say unfortunately, we have chosen cycling where weight and power is the most important thing.

There is nothing that can tell us differently.

There is a given weight and power.

Obviously, if we decide to be climbers, we can't be 80 kg.

If we decide to be speeders, we can't be 30 kg.

So we have to adapt according to our characteristics.

Obviously, then, seeing that vision, I don't know, of the Prevot so thin, all the young people say, oh God, so I win, right?

I win a Tour de France, I win a Giro d'Italia.

Maybe it's not like that, because each of us has our own perception of physicality, which is that.

For example, there is Elisa Longoborghini, who today is one of the strongest athletes in the world, and she is physically perfect.

She is not 20 kilos, but she is fine like that and she wins like that.