"Some countries achieve international sports by building specialised facilities to train top athletes, instead of providing sports facilities that everyone can use. Do you think this is positive or negative development?"
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Nowadays, international sports games have become a playing field for national sports industry to showcase their best talents and bring home positive publicity and admiration. Thus, some countries are willing to invest heavily in building specialized training complex to up skill their athletes, instead of fitness facilities for the public use. While I personally think this is a positive development, it also has some drawbacks that are worth discussing.
As mentioned above, the main reason for this trend is almost any country wants to be recognized for their sports industry. The only way to do that is to offer elite sports players high-class training areas including modern equipment monitoring athletes’ physical states. Another advantage of having domestic facilities is that government can reduce the cost of sending the athletes team for abroad coaching. For example, Australia has long been well known for its gold medal swimming team due to their internally developed method of training and sufficient investment in infrastructures. Moreover, this trend of development may have a positive impact on younger generations whom, in turn, will be more likely to choose sports professions, contributing to the booming of national sports industry in many years to come.
However, having said that, these training stadiums usually take up enormous cost of capital and limited spaces that would have otherwise been used to build public sports areas. As a result, people will have fewer places to go for exercises and play their favourite common sport such as badminton or swimming. Even when local gym and fitness centres are built in some suburbs, it is not always accessible to people who are not from well-off background. This may unfortunately increase chances of people leading a sedentary lifestyle which is totally against the active lifestyle that sports is trying to promote.
In conclusion, I believe that the benefits of building specialized training centres for top athletes clearly outweigh the minor drawbacks on the general well-being of the public. It is suggested that a balancing act is required from the authorities to minimize the potential drawbacks of the issue.
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