Some companies sponsor sports as a way to advertise themselves. Some people think that it is good, while others think there are disadvantages to this. Discuss both sides and give your opinion.

The graph shows the

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of gym membership based on the genders over a span of thirty years, from 1980 to 2010. Overall, there was an upward trend in female membership which fluctuated over the

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shown.

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, the

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of male

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fluctuated widely, being higher than the

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apart from in the

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decade of the twentieth century and 2007 afterwards. In the

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year of

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, we can see that the

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of men holding gym membership was twice as many

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for women.

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had more than doubled five years on, with 4000 men joining the gym. It

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plummeted to around 1800 in 1995. After a few years levelling out at almost the same rate, there was a dramatic increase, reaching the all-time high 5000 in 2005.

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, from

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on,

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plunged to a record low of about 800. Turning to the figures for women

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, the

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had trebled by 1995, increasing from 1000 to approximately 3000 and having the greatest

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of

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as opposed to men in 1995. At

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dropped steadily to almost 2000, but

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it went back up to the same

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for 1995 in 2005. By the end of the

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in question, in 2010,

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had declined gradually to roughly 2000, which was still twice as many the

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for the

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year of the given time frame.

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, in 2010, the

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of male

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was half as many

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as the

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number of female

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female

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females

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