the former olympic and five—time world champion cyclist elinor barker says she hopes it becomes increasingly summer. her baby is due in early spring and she's been telling tom brown how she's already planning for her return to the sport. the journey to balancing life as a professional cyclist with that as a mum has already begun for elinor barker but then the little boy she is expecting has already been to an olympic games. these miles and celebrations in tokyo last summer were extra special for barker and this photo, around her neck, was silver medal and in her pocket was a positive pregnancy test. i took the test within three or four hours of the final, wasn't ready tell everybody but also did not want to be the distraction from my team—mates as a lot of them still had races, i did not want to drop the bombshell on them so i stayed in the bombshell on them so i stayed in the village for a couple of days, that was the secret and i went home and got to tell my family. might make sense then, with her boyfriend casper, barker has been preparing for the baby's arrival. as well as... the trainin