Last month, the Diversity in Cycling report conducted by the British Cycling organisation argued that the cycling community needs to “challenge stereotypes that cycling is the preserve of middle-aged middle-class men in Lycra”.

Jools Walker, cycling blogger and author of Back in the Frame, recently spoke to Stylist about the lack of diversity in cycling, and how it held her back from getting on her bike.

“I didn’t see people like me, a woman-of-colour, out there. Nine years ago, before I got back into cycling, not seeing anyone I identified with was one of the biggest things putting me off it,” she said.

“That feeling of ‘you can’t be what you can’t see’ is terrifying. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done because of the fear of rejection or finding out it was not a space for me.

“No one should feel like that in anything in their lives at all. There are other women like you doing it, it’s just about finding them and making those connections that do exist.”

Sports has a diversity problem, and this embarrassing Photoshop blunder proves it