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HAVANA, May 17-- As sports centers being shut down nationwide due to the coronavirus pandemic, Cuban athletes have found innovative solutions to improve fitness and performance without violating social isolation rules. Leslie Amat is training hard to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 after having visited China four times over the last five years to compete at triathlon World Cups in Chengdu and Weihai where she started to pave her way as an elite athlete. The 27-year-old woman, who has set up a roof-top gym at her place in Cerro, a district of Cuba's capital Havana, wants to become the first Cuban triathlete ever to qualify for the Olympics. "I want to keep my physical and mental health up during the coronavirus outbreak. I will keep focused on the dream I want to make come true. Once I get across the finish line in Tokyo, my work will be done," she told Xinhua. Amat, who was taken to an isolation center on the outskirts of the Cuban capital for 14 days after she came back from a sport event in Mexico, started training sessions one month ago, which include 45-minute swimming, two-hour biking and 50-minute race as well as basic workouts. She started practicing synchronized swimming when she was five years of age and shifted to triathlon ten years later. "Although I still have to follow a very strict diet, I feel it is a little bit better because I am allowed to eat more than before," she said. | 
