Fill ’em up

This year’s Giro d’Italia winner, Simon Yates, reveals that riders now have to eat four times as much as a normal person. — AP

NOT so long ago, cyclists heading into the Tour de France were skinny string beans weighing and measuring every grain of rice that entered their body but that image has not just gone, it’s taken a seismic shift in the other direction.

This year’s riders will be gorging themselves like never before, taking on board the equivalent of a large plate of pasta per hour and even training their stomachs to cope with this influx of food.