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? Discuss both views and give your opinion.

Some countries prefer to build
sports
complexes
with specialised
facilities
for top athletes, in order to increase the probability of winning various kinds of
sports
competitions. In my opinion, it is a positive way, in order to be one of the best countries in terms of
sports
.
However
, having the same
facilities
could motivate regular
people
to do sport more regularly, too.
Due to
this
reason, I concur that everyone should have access to them. First and foremost, I concur that top athletes that make their country well-known need special places because they dedicate their lives to
sports
, unlike other
people
.
Also
, I would like to mention that those
sports
complexes
cost a lot of money. And if the government built more than there are right now, that country's budget will lose millions. The money that they would be able to spend on something better
such
as improvement of technology, medicine, education and etc.
This
means that those
complexes
are not only unnecessary for regular
people
but
also
expensive for the government.
However
, there is a chance that if
people
had
such
complexes
in their hometown, they would be much more encouraged to do sport,
therefore
the rate of obese
people
would be less, too.
Also
,
people
would have fewer health issues
such
as diabetes and so on.
To sum up
, in my point of view because of its advantages everyone should use those
facilities
. And in order not to exceed the budget, the countries could use the money for military for those
facilities
.
Submitted by Ayan on

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • specialised facilities
  • train top athletes
  • international sports
  • boost
  • reputation
  • attract
  • sporting events
  • access
  • general public
  • inequality
  • opportunities
  • overemphasis
  • elite sports
  • neglect
  • grassroots development
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