The confinement of athletes by COVID-19 : effects on training, wellbeing and the challenges when returning to competition
Date
2020
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Spanish Association of Sport Science
Abstract
The current COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a global health emergency of unprecedented magnitude. Most governments around the world have enforced isolation strategies in an effort to curb the spread of the virus and, in so doing, they have hopefully afforded hospitals much needed time to prepare for the high patient influx (Sarto et al., 2020). These confinement strategies have also had a profound impact on the majority of athletes, restricting their movement and limiting, or prohibiting, their access to training facilities. Suddenly, athletes are no longer able to follow their normal training schedules and major sport events have been cancelled or postponed.
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CITATION: Lamberts, R. & Gomez-Ezeiza, J. 2020. The confinement of athletes by COVID-19 : effects on training, wellbeing and the challenges when returning to competition. European Journal of Human Movement, 44:1-4, doi:10.21134/eurjhm.2020.44.559 .
The original publication is available at http://www.eurjhm.com
The original publication is available at http://www.eurjhm.com
Keywords
COVID-19 (Disease), Sport performance, Athletes
Citation
Lamberts, R. & Gomez-Ezeiza, J. 2020. The confinement of athletes by COVID-19 : effects on training, wellbeing and the challenges when returning to competition. European Journal of Human Movement, 44:1-4, doi:10.21134/eurjhm.2020.44.559 .