Doing the best they can: Lockdown athletes use brain, not just brawn

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Doing the best they can: Lockdown athletes use brain, not just brawn
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It may not be the best preparations for the next Olympics, but many athletes find ingenious ways to train at home.

INVENTIVE. Alexandra Recchia of France, a five-time karate world champion, sets up an improvised training equipment in the garden of her house. Photo by Franck Fife/AFP

Like all athletes in coronavirus-induced lockdown France, Recchia is using brain as well as brawn – doing the best she can with materials at hand in her home in the Paris area. Not the best preparations for the next Olympics in which she hopes to represent France. But better than most. At least she has access to a tiny garden.

His favorite time, the spring classics season, is already lost and even the greatest race of them all, the Tour de France, is in doubt. Offredo reckons that at 33 it will be his last season in the saddle.

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