With the Olympics postponed for a year due to covid-19, athletes are resting, trying not to worry and remain fit DOWNTIME u S.
Sreeshankar is catching up on sleep, which he terms the “most important activity", and reading novels and self-help books on training as well as Milkha Singh’s autobiography, The Race Of My Life.
u Bajrang Punia calls his reading a “new beginning". “I have about five (total) books with me," he says. u G. Sathiyan watches one movie every afternoon.
He is also spending a lot of time with his mother and gardening. u Vikas Krishan is teaching his three children—aged 6, 5 and 4—to play chess.