Sports Event Closing Speech

Chairperson’s Closing Speech on a Sports Event

Respected ______________ , teachers, students and guests.

The fun filled sports week (or name of the event) comes to a conclusion today. The participants were at their best
exhibiting the spirit of competition and enthusiasm. I am really thankful to you for providing us some very exciting
moments. I congratulate the winners and the participants both because these parts make a whole of success.
 
Sports events such as this are meant to showcase the collective talent of the youth rather than only recognizing
winners. A winner exists because someone dared to stand up and lose. For a height there has to be depth. I think the
thrill of life is in holding up both.

Sports competitions fill us with enthusiasm which is a vital change in the cycle of routines. It inspires the participants
and spectators both. They build physical stamina and teach us to take victories and defeats in our stride. Very
important lessons of life are woven into these fights. A loser provides a winner a scale to measure his or her success.

Those who could not script victory on this occasion should not be disappointed but analyze their performance and set
out on a further mission. You need to remember that the winner is not twice as much better than a runner up. The
difference may be fraction of a fraction.

There are many fringe benefits of being an athlete. It gives you the confidence, strength and enhances physical
productivity. You have the joy of eating well and looking good in your body enclosure. Sports teach us how to work in
harmony with other people, exert whenever necessary, accept defeats with equal ease and work as a consolidated
unit.

I believe you will continue to strive for excellence in the discipline you have already displayed a great deal of 
promise. I really appreciate you for giving us this opportunity to celebrate and be proud of you.

Now enjoy the cultural feast which your schoolmates and teachers have specially prepared for you. After that it is
time for all of us to resume our usual work and make best of the refreshed mind and show up on the next stage of
success,  that is,  your academic performance.
 
I wish you greater success in future and hope your being a sports person will add to the glory of the game and the
country both.

Thank you