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Sudoku Play Now. Word Search Play Now. Follow us on. Living and entertainment iDiva MensXP. This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. The Dutch rowing team is self-isolating at the Tokyo Olympics after a spate of coronavirus infections in the camp, director Hessel Evertse said on Monday. Coach Josy Verdonkschot is quarantining after testing positive for Covid following a positive test for year-old men's single sculls competitor Finn Florijn. Last week a staff member on the team also tested positive.

High-performance director of rowing Evertse said the Netherlands team had decided to take the action. Olympic organisers on Sunday took the decision to postpone Tuesday's rowing finals because of the danger of strong winds as a result of an approaching tropical storm. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at or visit www.

Instead, the Ghanaians have resorted to shadow boxing in front of a mirror in their own rooms at a team hotel in preparation for the biggest competition of their lives. Instructions from their coach are delivered via WhatsApp from his room down the hall. For decades, Kenya's dominating distance runners have trained for the Olympics in groups of 30 or more and alongside budding young athletes they use as pacemakers. Not this year.

She's spent much of her time working on her mental focus while home alone. The isolation of the pandemic hasn't bothered Zimbabwean rower Peter Purcell-Gilpin, who competes in the single scull and trains alone. But he needed water and time with his coach in person before Tokyo. So he traveled from his training base in Britain to Zambia in southern Africa so he could link up with his Zimbabwe-based coach and do some work for three months in real conditions on open water.

When she returned to swimming she was exhausted after just a few laps, experienced chest pains and visited a cardiologist, who assured her that her heart was fine. It just needed time. She spent hours training in her own pool at home, getting past the problem of it being way too small by connecting herself to an elastic rope and swimming on the spot.