Home alone: How international athletes are keeping fit indoors

Using home remedies, furniture and ingenuity, here's how sportspeople are keeping themselves going in lockdown

May 29, 2020, 16:34 IST1 min

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In the early days of the lockdown, with the British government limiting time for outdoors, Team GB rower Jess Leyden stays in shape at her home in Wallingford

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German epee fencer Alexandra Ndolo trains with a self-made puppet in her apartment in Cologne

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With gyms shut in London, long distance runner Mo Farah competes with a gang of deer as part of his training for the Olympics. Farah, a double gold-medallist in 2012 and 2016, is yet to qualify for the Tokyo edition

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With cases soaring in his country, Brazilian swimmer Miguel Valente trains alone at his home in Belo Horizonte

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Louis Delétraz, reserve driver for Haas Formula 1 team and F2 racer, trains on a simulator at his parents’ home in Veyrier near Geneva in Switzerland

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Brazilian national volleyball player Evandro Guerra trains with wife Bruna Lecardelion in Belo Horizonte

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