Coronavirus Outbreak: Athletes doing their bit to boost public health with online fitness classes during COVID-19 shutdown

Besides Radcliffe, other Olympic athletes involved include two-time 100-meter champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica, who is reading her children’s book, and 2012 100 hurdles champion Sally Pearson of Australia, leading a pre-natal workout class Dusseldorf: Moving from the track to the living room, many athletes around the world are doing their bit to boost public health during the coronavirus pandemic. Besides Radcliffe, other Olympic athletes involved include two-time 100-meter champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica, who is reading her children’s book, and 2012 100 hurdles champion Sally Pearson of Australia, leading a pre-natal workout class. Now she’s taken it online, with daily German-language YouTube workouts packed with motivational chat for the kids she calls her “world champions.” “Even when parents try hard to keep the general uncertainty away from them, children have finely tuned antennas and sense something like that anyway,” Mihambo said on the German track federation website. “If I can make my little contribution to putting a bit of structure in their everyday lives in this time, to make them enthusiastic about sport, then I’m happy to do that.” Spanish football coaches and French athletes have joined in, too, while the Slovakian football federation published a video showing Jan Gregus, a midfielder with Minnesota United in Major League Soccer, doing a playful routine.