The photo of the year for Uno-X Mobility is of Elinor Barker wearing the team jersey while showing her baby bump in the ninth month of pregnancy. In fact, Elinor Barker, just a few days after this shot, gave birth to her second child, Dylan. The photo of Barker with her baby bump is not meant to be a message of revolution or innovation, but simply a normal snapshot in the life of a female athlete, who did not give up racing or medals, because Elinor Barker - between her first and second pregnancy - won gold at the World Championships on the track and also silver and bronze in the last two Olympic Games.

Born in Cardiff, a city symbolic for track racers, on September 7, 1994, she has always shown uncommon enthusiasm and strength and even during her two pregnancies - the first in March 2022 with the arrival of little Nico and then the second at the beginning of the year with Dylan - she demonstrated that she could be both a mother and an athlete without one role diminishing the other.

Her record is impressive, with gold medals at the Olympics, World Championships, and European Championships, and her pregnancies have always been a stimulus to do even better.

Her images show a strong champion who continued cycling until the seventh month of pregnancy, with her doctor's approval, albeit with minimal activity, and who returned to training gradually just days after giving birth.

Elinor Barker defines her children as the two most beautiful victories of her life, because they taught her that starting from the bottom, one can truly reach the top.

At 31, the British athlete is ready to restart: in her social media post, she said she will return to competing in August and that the period after childbirth will be one of the most motivating phases of her career because while it's possible to feel discouraged, there is also an incredible strength and enthusiasm that arise from the desire to return to racing and to challenge herself as an athlete.