‘Lula’s a gym rat’: Brazil president livestreams workouts in campaign for historic fourth term

Octogenarian incumbent contrasts his health with challenger Flávio Bolsonaro, who fainted during a TV debate The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is seeking to lunge and leg press his way to a historic fourth term, as the octogenarian politician uses a flurry of workout videos to convince voters he is fighting fit ahead of October’s crunch election. Lula looks set to face off against a senator almost half his age in what will be the leftist’s seventh presidential campaign sin...

By Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro