Close To The Net Forge Radio

With most sports venues closed and competitions postponed, athletes have been forced to train at home for the past couple of months. We asked professional athletes in ice climbing, taekwondo, diving and volleyball about how they find home training!



Stories mentioned in the show:

Isolation Olympics:  https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/team-gb-isolation-games-sport-18093908

Coach Story: https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2020/04/how-do-you-hand-out-88-championship-rings-in-a-pandemic-1-coach-found-a-way.html

We started with our sport news of the week- Man City Ban, Tyson-Deontay, Liverpool winning strike and Sharapova's retirement (4:32)

Moving on to our favourite moment in sports - personal experience this time (19:10)

Story time is decathlon with Malachi, who used to compete in decathlon nationals in the UK (28:00)  (35:38)  (45:25).