Marathon races: Local fitness efforts boosters – Athletics news
Looking into the fact that countries across the world usually go to any length to host sporting events, one wonders whether it is only due to the fact that a huge amount of money is usually attached to all such events, which goes into the pocket of the organising
country. Well, if one thinks this way, of course one is not entirely wrong, nevertheless, this is not a complete picture of the fact either.
The truth is that besides monetary rewards, there are other benefits as well which are associated to earn the hosting of big sporting events. Dwelling upon the fact that what are these benefits, the present article looks into the matter with an analytical
view.
For making a sporting event successful, the most important factor is the people’s involvement into it, both locally and internationally. It is with the intentions to involve these people into the extravaganzas of such events that organisers spend huge amount
of money for marketing purposes. Now, what marketing does is that it not only attracts people towards watching the event, it also creates an inspiration for common people.
In order to become as good in a sport as their favourite stars, people start joining gyms and clubs, and instead of wasting time of non-productive activities, they opt for various exercises that may result in improving their game, fitness and physical structures.
If we look into the matter with greater attention, we will come to know that these are the real gains that a city or a country can extract from organising huge sporting events.
To make matters simple and understandable for readers, here, we take the example of Korea, which is going to host the World Athletics Championships at Daegu by the last week of this coming August.
Korea has been preparing for the big event for the past two years or so, and in doing so, it has successfully involved a big chunk of its population into athletics related activities. It has been observed that just during the past two years, the percentage
of the total population of the country that has got involved into sporting activities has increased significantly.
This phenomenon is not only resulting in producing quality athletes that may prove to be a cause of privilege for the country, but is also promoting activities that will lay the foundation for a healthy activity at national level.
Keeping in view the fact that sporting event enhances the interest of the population of a country into respective sports, it has been observed that countries usually opt for hosting events for which there is already a liking from within their country. For
instance, countries like China, Russia, France and England always go for organising Athletics related events, while European and Arabian counties go for hosting football competitions and countries from the sub-continent long for conducting hockey and cricket
tournaments.
This is the effect of organising an event in your own territory, as no other country can produce world-class players in cricket as the sub-continent does. Also, no country could produce athletes as China, Russia, Britain and France, and the rule goes same
for rest of sports. Thus, we can conclude that the reason for why countries opt for organising big sporting events does not necessarily have monetary roots, rather, they also go for the option for promoting respective sports in their own territories.
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