Like the fencer Pauline Ranvier, who practices touching a tennis ball hanging from the ceiling with her foil, top athletes compete in inventiveness to keep in shape during confinement.
The French team footballer Paul Pogba goes on technical challenges ball to toe while the Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador slaloms by bike between his living room furniture. Pole jumper Renaud Lavillenie uses his children for bodybuilding weights.
"There is always a solution, you just have to be creative," said Olympic open water champion Sharon von Rouwendaal. The Dutchwoman attached herself to a tree using a rubber band to stay static and swim without advancing in an inflatable children's pool. In water approaching 10 degrees, she managed to train 45 minutes in her garden. His technique is also used by Marc-Antoine Olivier and Océane Cassignol, his training partners in the group of Philippe Lucas, and members of the French open water swimming team.
Confined near Grenoble, the young Thibaut Collet installed a "homemade" pole-vault in his garden. Broadcast on social networks, the video of his jump went viral, with more than 2.5 million views on the TikTok application.