SHOULD THE GOVERMENTAL

POLICY BE BENEFICIAL FOR ALL ALTHETES?

As you may have heard, the government is planning to finance the training
costs for elite athletes. Although no one can deny that this kind of subsidy
can play a crucial role in boosting national pride and encourage wider
participation in sports, there are a lot of fair people out there who see this
policy as an unequal distribution amongst the poor and the wealthy athletes.
First, let’s consider for a moment the main points of the governmental
financial support of elite athletes, which are based unquestionably upon
some serious evidence. Is a matter of fact that not all elite athletes are able to
have lucrative sponsorships due to the nature of their sport: Only sports that
are either very common and famous, like football, or very lucrative, like
tennis, can give a lucrative sponsorship. Regarding all the above, not only
we do not give the potential as a nation to gain any medal, thus boosting our
pride, we are also not promoting elite sport in the younger people. Besides,
as a survey of 2020 shows a 58% of teenagers are not doing sports outside of
school.
But as serious all that concerns and evidence may be, this doesn’t mean that
the governmental solution of subsidies for elite athletes is the proper one.
The reason why that is because we must meet some fundamentals that have
to do with the balance between of sport equality, sport inclusion and sport
funding and sponsorship. In other words, if we want more people to
participate in sports and even in elite sport we must create more facilities of
all of levels, for all sports, famous or not lucrative or not, and in a way that
takes under consideration the funds limitations as also the sponsorships
given.
Take all that under consideration, we must be for a policy that builds more
stadiums or improve the existing ones. Whether those are big urban stadium
or small urban stadium. We must be for a policy that builds facilities for
sports that they may not be so famous, but they have a certain appeal to
young people in certain places. Let’s give not only to the elite athletes with
lucrative sponsorship a portion of the subsides, but also to all others which
they are struggling to find theirs. Let’s have a solution that take care all its
citizens that doing sports. All these may have the meaning that we need
more evidence to proceed but let's us first agree that this is the golden mean
of the sports subsidies problem.