Some countries achieve international success by building specialized facilities to train top athletes instead of providing sports facilities that everyone can use. Do you think it is a positive or negative development?

When it comes to how to make progress in
sports
, attitudes vary from country to country. Some remain
firm
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believer
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in splurging to provide top infrastructure for elite sportsmen despite the common international belief that making these infrastructures an everyday luxury available for both
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and city workers is more vital. In my aspect, burning money only for a few top athletes is a negative method of development. My viewpoint stems from
such
factors.
To begin
with, those specialized facilities are expensive and lavishing on them will put a tremendous burden on the budget of
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. And these fundings could be spent on education, medicine and social safety-net
instead
,
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are
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thought to be more beneficial to lift the living standards of people.
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,
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elite athletes are usually selected from a quite early age. They spent all of their time
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and lost many opportunities to learn the literal curriculum. If they quit their
sports
career one day, it is difficult to feed themselves, as no skills are mastered except
sports
techniques. At the same time, the huge pressure shouldered on these top teenagers may bring both physical and psychological illness.
Last
but not least, if the facilities are admitted only to be used by few ranges of people, the aim of improving
overall
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health situation cannot be achieved. The revenues earned by the authorities are supported by every citizen,
therefore
it should be used to develop public infrastructure. In a word,
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elite
sports
have
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an enormous
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negative impact on
development
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of society and should be cancelled.
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