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What Benefit Does National Achievement In Sports Do To A Country?
Okay, virtually all countries in this world invest relatively considerable amount of money for the development of their national athletes in various sports. However, Im just wondering what benefits exactly do sport achievements in international tournaments bring to a country? I know it is very good for national pride which could boost nationalistic feeling among the populace. But is that it?
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Re: What Benefit Does National Achievement In Sports Do To A Country?
It's just national pride, silly.
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Last edited by Thanatos; December 01, 2007 at 12:12 AM.
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Re: What Benefit Does National Achievement In Sports Do To A Country?
Well, professional sports do jack crap for anyone, except to make a few people obscenely wealthy. Smaller scale sports (like school sports) help to keep the population fit, and active in their communities.
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Re: What Benefit Does National Achievement In Sports Do To A Country?
The Olympics in South Korea opened it to democracy, so that is an important example that everyone should look at before saying sports have no effect on a nation.
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and its a sorta test for the pharmaceutical companies "products"
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Re: What Benefit Does National Achievement In Sports Do To A Country?
I once heard in Europe when a country lost a football game foreign investment in its stock market or whatever drops.
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Re: What Benefit Does National Achievement In Sports Do To A Country?
eeheheh i also readed that the last world cup in germany give a boost to natality (maybe people are happy so they make more sex?? LOL) and that the winning country of world cup get a boost in its GDP growt, lol who knows
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Re: What Benefit Does National Achievement In Sports Do To A Country?
It enables pride in countries that often don't have very much to be proud of. Whilst many sports are expensive to have facilities for many are in fact dirt cheap. For instance long distance running where ethiopia is the dominant country despite not having anywere near the resources that countries like america and australia has.
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