Emma Ross

Ross holds a doctorate in exercise physiology and ran the physiology department at the English Institute of Sport across the Rio and Tokyo Olympic cycles, where she started a project on a plain fact: almost all sports science had been done on men. The Female Body Bible, with the coach Baz Moffat and the doctor Bella Smith, is the general-audience version of that work, covering periods, pelvic floors, breasts and menopause and how each interacts with training. A newspaper gave her a changemaker award for it in 2021.