Hi, welcome to six feet apart. I'm Alex Wagner. It's hard to pinpoint one singular moment when Americans began to realize that the COVID-19 pandemic was about to reshape all of our lives. But for many of us, the cancellation of our favorite pastimes, basketball, the Olympics, the performing arts,

that was the inflection point, the beginning of a very different era. And that's what we're

talking about today. Sports, or sport, if you prefer to be a little more highfalutin about it.

What's happened to America's finest athletes in a moment when games and performances are all on hold indefinitely?

How do you maintain peak physical condition when the arenas and stages are closed and your coaches are nowhere near you?

What happens to team players when there's no team? We'll be talking to people

who've trained their whole lives to perform under pressure and now find themselves with nowhere to go

and nothing to perform. First, we'll speak to Christian Coleman, one of the great track and field

hopefuls for Team USA in the 2020 Summer Olympics, which are now the 2021 Summer Olympics.

Christian was widely expected to beat Usain Bolt's 100-meter-Dash Olympic record.

He just might be the fastest man alive.

But for now, he's back at home living with his parents.

Then we'll talk with Isabella Boylston, a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater

in New York City.

Because of the pandemic, Isabella has lost an entire season in a career that is by nature fairly

short.

Instead of pirouettes at Lincoln Center, she's now live-streaming ballet classes from her

kitchen in Brooklyn. And then Nekka Ogumake, a WNBA player on the Los Angeles Sparks. While the

NBA was the first major American professional sports association to cancel its season due to COVID-19,

the WNBA hasn't even started its

games for 2020. While the WNBA aims to get its players back on the courts sometime this year,

for now NECA and her teammates are in isolation. She's been at home waiting to shoot hoops

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