Khanh Hoa Provincial 9th Sports Festival will kick off in April and end in November with 15 sports. The festival is an opportunity for Khanh Hoa to discover talent for the province's high-achievement sports teams.
Khanh Hoa Provincial 9th Sports Festival will kick off in April and end in November with 15 sports. The festival is an opportunity for Khanh Hoa to discover talent for the province’s high-achievement sports teams.
Reportedly, the 9th Sports Festival will take place simultaneously at three levels including provincial, district and commune levels. At commune level, the festival will include at least five sports and will have finished by June. The district-level festival will have ten sports played before September. Meanwhile, the province-level festival will comprise of 15 sports played from April to October. It is scheduled to kick off on April 23 at the provincial Sports Arena with participation of 1,600 people; the closing ceremony will be held on November 26.
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What the organizers are most concerned about at the present is the quality of this year’s sports festivals. In fact, after the 2017 provincial Sports Festival, the development of Khanh Hoa’s sports has gradually slowed down and even showed signs of decline. Therefore, the province’s sectors and localities at all levels need to change the way of organization in order for the festival to produce effective results. The sports festivals need to help encourage people to involve more actively in doing physical exercise and sports as well as help the province to evaluate the quality of local sports movement. Especially, the sports festivals need to serve as a means to discover promising players for the provincial high-achievement sports teams.
In the 8th Sports Festival in 2017, quite a lot of martial art athletes took part in the track and field event, one of the important sports of Khanh Hoa, only to improve their fitness. This unexpectedly made the quality of the festival as well as track and field movement decrease. As said by Hoang Thi Huyen Nga, deputy director of Khanh Hoa Provincial Sports Technique Training Center, the source of athletes for the provincial sports teams has primarily based on the help of the local sports collaborators. After being discovered by these collaborators, the promising sports talent will be encouraged and convinced to join the provincial sports teams. Meanwhile, the movement contests are not a good place to look for sports talent because the localities seemed to not pay much attention to movement players.
One of the main causes for this situation is the inappropriate money policy for coaches and athletes of high-achievement sports. The current monetary policy for high-achievement sports coaches and athletes of Khanh Hoa is still relatively low, which cannot attract young players. Besides, the lack of cooperation between the boards of coaches and the sports federations, units, clubs, and localities is also the reason for the increasingly limited source of athletes. Therefore, this year’s provincial Sports Festival is expected to create momentum for the development of the province’s sports movement.
An Nhien
Translated by H.N
