With Sport Suspended, Here's How Athletes Are Passing Time In Isolation

No team training sessions and no game day prep means they needed to get creative - by Alex Pierotti

Sport is cancelled indefinitely while the Tokyo Olympics have been officially postponed. Athletes and sporting personalities have been left with not a whole not to do, aided by the fact that facilities are closed and group sessions canned.

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So what does a sportsman do while stuck in isolation and after the little exercise they can do in their makeshift gym? A quick glance at their social media account paints a very bleak picture.

NRL stars are launching (maybe a side-hustle?) a TikTok career: Alex Johnston, Kotoni Staggs and Nick Cotric are the most prominent figures on the video-sharing platform. From skits about missing the game to learning new dance moves, these rugby stars have a lot of spare time at the moment.

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Nick Cotric on TikTok

Others have moved back home: many hail from the dusty red-soil plains. Jimmy Roberts is helping out at his family's farm while Daniel Riccardo is back in WA exchanging a Formula 1 car for a tractor.

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For many footballers, they've swapped the round ball for a roll of toilet paper, working on their kicky-ups and precision accuracy.

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And if you're James Milner? Well you have a few pencils to sharpen...

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Alex Pierotti

Alex Pierotti is the Digital Content Editor for Men's Health Australia, with experience reporting on health, fitness and sport. With a Journalism degree from UNSW under his belt, he got his start working in TV, working on the live broadcast of the Intrust Super Shute Shield on 7TWO before making the switch to print and digital at Pacific Magazines.

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