House cleaning, a marathon on the balcony and an unexpected wedding: how athletes spend time in quarantine

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, more and more people in the world are quarantined or self-isolated. Athletes left without competition are no exception. In order to pass the time within the four walls, they find new hobbies, arrange virtual tournaments and do not forget about keeping fit.

Doing sports

Lack of competitive practice and full training can negatively affect the physical form of professional athletes, especially given the fact that a forced pause can drag on for several months. Everyone comes out of this situation in their own way, and some show miracles of ingenuity.

So, gymnast Sanne Versa equipped a small training room right in her living room. For this, a log was delivered to her, on which she and her sister Like had already begun to perform exercises. It was on this projectile that the Dutchwoman won the gold medal of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

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But what if you are a marathon runner and not a single home training can replace a full-fledged long-distance race? The athlete Elisha Nochomovits knows the answer. An experienced Frenchman, who has 36 starts, decided that quarantine is not a reason to abandon his usual lifestyle, and ran 42.195 km on the balcony of the house. With a distance of 7 meters from wall to wall, he needed about 6,000 runs back and forth. It took him 6 hours 48 minutes - this is far from an absolute record, but it is worth making a discount on not the most suitable conditions.

The race was not easy for Nochomovits, but a girl supported him on the way to an impromptu finish. According to the runner, his goal was to encourage fellow citizens, as well as convey an important message to them.

“My work was recognized as socially useless, so the best way to not be discouraged is to go in for sports. We were told to stay home, which I did. Just to show you that we have no excuses. And please, think about all those medical workers who are at the forefront of the fight against the virus, ”the marathon runner wrote.

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One of the few sporting events not canceled due to coronavirus was the football championship of Belarus. In the country, relatively few cases of the disease were recorded, and therefore the leadership decided not to postpone the start of the tournament.

The famous Belarusian midfielder Alexander Gleb admitted that he was surprised by this attitude to the situation, but made an unusual offer for the attackers Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

“Now the whole world is watching the championship of Belarus. Everyone should go to the TV and watch it. When the NHL stopped the season, many hockey players went to play in Russia. Maybe Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will come to Belarus? .. This is the only place in Europe where you can play football. At least people here will be happy, ”Gleb quotes The Sun.

Indeed, football fans lost at once the leading European tournaments - the English Premier League, the Spanish Examples, the Italian Serie A, the French League 1 and other national championships. At Match TV, they suggested what competition logos might look like during a coronavirus epidemic.

Football top leagues quarantined and now their logo looks like this 😉

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Housework

Another effective way to cope with boredom and keep fit is to do household chores. A good example was shown by the ex-striker of Spartak, now playing for Porto The Luis. He washed the floors in the house, which earned praise from his girlfriend Alesi, who captured the process on video.

It is possible that the football player was somewhat alarmed by her post about life together during quarantine, published the day before. “God forbid not to kill each other,” the Russian woman wrote.

But the couple is definitely not in danger of getting bored in the four walls, since not only Alesya, but Ze Luis himself has a sense of humor. He gave her a draw by collecting water in a glass and fixing it at the very ceiling with a stick. Then the footballer asked the unsuspecting girl to help him and handed the construction to her. Only after some time she realized that she was trapped.

The Luis is still a comedian. Footballer made fun of his Russian girlfriend pic.twitter.com/kRrtgb4goE

Home cares are not alien to the newly made two-time owner of the "Big Crystal Globe" Dorothea Wierer. Italy was one of the first countries to be completely quarantined, so the biathlete had enough time to clean up her house in Bolzano.

In a playful form, she said that she managed to put on a sports uniform, gain weight and quarrel with her husband.

“19:00. Finally I managed to roll off the couch and take off my pajamas. Cleaning, ”wrote Wierer.

The Dutch swimmer Femke Hemskerk will have to learn all the charms of family life. She was engaged to an American entrepreneur, Guido Frackers, and the wedding was due to take place in November 2020. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the triumph had to be postponed to an earlier date.

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Publication by Guido Frackers (@guido_frackers) Mar 20, 2020 at 6:18 PDT

According to the 2008 Olympic champion, she was afraid that because of quarantine, her separation from her fiancé would be delayed indefinitely. Then the athlete decided on a desperate step: she packed up and went to Vancouver, where the Frackers was waiting for her. As a result, the ceremony did not go according to the classical scenario.

“Since I just flew in from Drachten, I only had comfortable clothes for traveling with me. I got married in sweatpants and a sweater. The wedding was not quite the way I dreamed, ”Sports swimmer quotes referring to NOS.

Days in isolation for many athletes brighten up not only the second half, but also pets. Well-known actor and bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger took part in the increasingly popular challenge #SafeHands (#Safe Hands), during which it is necessary to show the correct technique of washing hands. Fulfilling the test conditions, the former governor of California spoke in detail about the importance of personal hygiene to his dog, who watched the process with interest.

New hobbies

Self-isolation is an occasion to find a new hobby for yourself and do something that did not have enough time in everyday life. So, the goalkeeper of Barcelona and the German national team Marc-Andre ter Stegen showed barista skills by drawing a pattern with foam on coffee.

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Publication by Marc ter Stegen (@ mterstegen1) Mar 22, 2020 at 8:09 am PDT

But the two-time Olympic champion in pole vaulting, Elena Isinbaeva, took up more traditional creativity. She painted a picture and demonstrated it on Instagram, asking subscribers to rate the work on a 10-point scale.

“Time can be used to good use. I develop my skills in drawing, ”said Isinbayeva.

The former athlete can really be praised for craving for a new one. Previously, she said that she is mastering the butterfly swimming technique, which until recently she was not familiar with.

In the absence of football, the defender of Sochi Adil Rami will definitely not disappear. For example, he can go work as a magician, especially since some tricks in his arsenal are already there. The Frenchman showed that he can control not only the ball on the field, but also with five-ruble coins.

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Football challenge #StayAtHome (#Stay Home) got to other sports. Recall that its participants must mint a roll of toilet paper as many times as possible. In rugby, such tricks are less common, so the player of Spartak Anatoly Shmakov came up with his own version. He set the gate and executed a free kick - of course, using paper rolls. The blow was not very successful, but on quarantine the rugby player will have time to master it perfectly.

Not only athletes, but also team mascots are forced to resort to self-isolation. So, the Washington Capitals mascot, the Slapshot Eagle, launched a new task as part of the challenge #HockeyAtHome (# Hockey House). Its essence is simple: the participant needs to get one plastic cup into another from a short distance. While hockey players prefer the more traditional version of stick jogging with rolls, it can be assumed that they will also like this entertainment.

Picking up a new skill. # HockeyAtHome # ALLCAPS # ALLCUPSpic.twitter.com / qoENOlh7M0