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LOL DELETE OPEN

Long before the Italian govern-

ment closed everything but super-

markets, banks and pharmacies,

Elisa Di Francisca committed to her

own personal quarantine. She

wasn’t sick, nor did she have any

particular risk factors. Di Francisca

just couldn’t take any chances: She

is a gold medal-winning fencer. The

Olympics were four months away.

“As soon as I saw that cases

were rising in Italy, I said I’m not

competing,” she said from her home

in Rome. “I’m locking myself in.”

The choice was a no-brainer for

her, but the circumstances remain

impossibly stressful. Like hundreds

of Olympians whose countries have

adopted radical social distancing

measures—like Italy, France, Spain

and China before them—Di Fran-

cisca and her teammates are now

training under lockdown for an

Olympics that they cannot be sure

is happening.

This is the fate that awaits

American Olympic hopefuls in the

coming days if states and cities

start to follow Italy’s example. The

spread of the virus in Italy, where

there are more than 20,000 con-

firmed cases, is roughly a week

ahead of the situation in the U.S.

This isn’t how any of them imag-

ined preparing for a career-defining

event that might be canceled.

“No, no, no, no, no,” Di Francisca

said in Italian. “It’s unthinkable.Im-

pensabile.As athletes, we make so

many sacrifices, have so many com-

petitions, do so much training. To

not go to the Olympics would be a

catastrophe for me.”

She isn’t alone. The catastrophe

would extend to thousands of ath-

letes and federations whose liveli-

hoods depend on sports outside the

mainstream. National governing

bodies structure their entire budget

plans around Olympic cycles, with

sponsorship tied to a single mo-

ment of visibility every four years.

Their margins are paper-thin. Even

though the fencing squad is Italy’s

most decorated Olympic outfit,

most of the athletes still have to

work day jobs.

“We live on the Olympics,” said

Daniele Garozzo, the defending

Olympic champion in the men’s foil,

and also a police officer. “It’s the

only competition where people see

our sport.”

The problem with training during

a lockdown is that their minds inev-

itably wander to thoughts of Tokyo.

The International Olympic Commit-

tee insisted again this week that the

Games would go ahead as scheduled

in late July, even as entire countries

shut down and the calendar of qual-

ifying events across sports has been

thrown into disarray.

One senior IOC member had sug-

gested that a decision would need

to be made by late May and figures

in Japanese government have

hinted that a delay was being con-

sidered. But the IOC has quieted

talk of disruption to the Games.

two practice sessions a day, will re-

sume some form of training next

week. Her coach is sending her

physical workouts that she can

complete in her house to keep her

fitness up. But the fencing-specific

training is harder to resume—it

isn’t like Di Francisca or her team-

mates have fencing pistes at home.

For the most part, she is trying to

enjoy spending some unforeseen ex-

tra time with her family. “We think

a lot about eating,” she joked.

“We’re all gaining weight.”

Under normal circumstances, the

Italian fencers would all have been

in California this weekend for a

meet. Before the event was can-

celed altogether, some members of

the team had still wanted to travel

there. Di Francisca refused and

common sense prevailed.

With international sports grind-

ing to a standstill, the team’s calen-

dar between now and Tokyo is a list

of cancellations. The immediate

concern for Di Francisca was sliding

down the rankings, which she

feared might affect her seeding

when the time comes to fence in

the Olympics. But that’s already

fading. It’s looking likely that every-

one is heading for similar training

conditions and no one will compete

before the Games—if the Games go

ahead at all.

“In a few weeks, the virus will

spread to most of the world,” Ga-

rozzo said. “All the other athletes

will experience this. I’m sad to say

this, but I’m almost sure.”

BYJOSHUAROBINSON

Training Under Lockdown

In Italy, athletes practice in isolation for Games that might not happen. U.S. Olympians are next.

NFL players approved a new col-

lective bargaining agreement that

will keep America’s most popular

sport on the field for the next de-

cade at a moment when the rest of

the sports world has shut down.

The timing of the deal, which

had already been approved by own-

ers, comes at a harrowing financial

moment for both the world at large

and the sports business. Although

the current agreement ran through

the 2020 season, the sides pushed

to get an early pact done because

they saw various economic advan-

tages to doing so: The players could

cash in on their financial gains a

year earlier while both parties

thought they could reap the bene-

fits of an economy that was boom-

ing to land new television deals,

worth tens of billions.

That was before the novel coro-

navirus became a pandemic, drag-

ging down the global economy and

effectively sidelining the entire

sports world.

The thin margin by which the

players approved the deal—1,

voted in favor versus 959 against,

according to the NFLPA—was the

most telling sign of the divisiveness

inside the ranks of the players.

The deal will have widespread fi-

nancial implications inside the NFL.

It is projected to put at least $

million in new money in players’

pockets in the first year alone.

There are increases in roster sizes,

benefits and pensions.

But for fans it has one salient ef-

fect: a plan for more football. And

that’s also why this CBA became so

controversial.

The agreement gives owners the

option to add a 17th regular-season

game, one more than is currently

played, as soon as the 2021 season.

Even before owners approved the

CBA’s terms in February, it became

clear that a sizable faction of play-

ers opposed it. Richard Sherman, a

49ers cornerback, was among many

star players who blasted the extra

game, saying it was hypocritical for

the NFL to say it cared about the

players’ health and safety while also

asking them to play more football.

BRIAN VILLANUEVA/NEWSCOM/ZUMA PRESS
NFL players voted yes: 1,019 to 959.

Elisa Di Francisca, left, is a gold medal-winning fencer who has been training in isolation in Italy. It remains uncertain if the Olympics will take place as scheduled.

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“The many measures being taken

now by authorities all around the

world give us confidence and keep

us fully committed,” the organiza-

tion said.

For the athletes in lockdown, it’s

hard to square the IOC’s insistence

with the empty streets, bare super-

market shelves, and harrowing

numbers on the news. Around the

world, they are running into closed

facilities, from swimming pools to

velodromes to their local gyms.

Di Francisca, who won two golds

in London and a silver in Rio, has

done her best to put the possibility

of cancellation out of her mind.

More than her own ambitions for

the Games, the 37-year-old is des-

perate for her toddler to watch her

compete on the sport’s brightest

stage for the first time. It’s the only

way, she said, that Di Francisca can

help him understand why she is

away from him so often.

“I’ve told him so many times:

‘Mamma is training. Mamma is go-

ing to the Olympics. And you’re go-

ing to come with me,’” she said.

Di Francisca, who normally has

The problem with

training is that their

minds wander to

thoughts of the Olympics.

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