How do you like to start your day? If you’re anything like us, you grab a coffee and a muffin on the way to work or plonk yourself down in front of your computer with some muesli. While breakfast is supposed to be the most important meal of the day, it’s rarely treated that way. Except for at weekends. At weekends, breakfast is of the upmost importance and you can find us face down in a full English or a pile of pancakes.But what of female athletes? Those enigmatic beings who hide away for most of the year before they take to the stage to perform superhuman feats? What do they eat for breakfast?In 2008, the American swimmer Michael Phelps made, ahem, waves, when the New York Post reported that his calorific breakfast included three fried egg sandwiches with cheese, tomatoes, fried onions and mayo, a five egg omelette, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast and three chocolate chip pancakes. So do all Olympians approach mealtimes with such Homer Simpson-esque rigour?After a bit of investigating, we discovered that, sadly, they don’t. Phelps was very much the 12,000 calorie-a-day exception. In fact, most female athletes reported to eating fairly standard breakfast foods. So we hired the very talented Felicity McCabe to recreate the dishes and photograph them.First up, what does British heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill fuel up with? A simple yoghurt mixed with muesli and pumpkin seeds, a banana, toast and jam and an orange juice for the woman who was the most Googled female athlete of 2012.