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- - - - Gender segregation
        
        female athletes are at the top of their game right now, but they are still not receiving the support that men do
        
        Despite accumulating international titles, the US women’s national soccer team are currently having to pursue a gender discrimination lawsuit for equal pay (above, a photo of them from August 2019). In advance of the trial, their governing body (US Soccer) has filed court documents declaring them less skilled than their male counterparts.
        
        The underlying research that makes good nutrition and effective training possible has also all been done on men, says exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist Stacy Sims in her TEDxTauranga Talk. “[During my early research I was told] ‘women are an anomaly, so we don’t necessarily study women in sport nutrition or exercise science’
        
        New Zealand-based Sims is on a mission to get the sporting world to recognize that “women aren’t just small men” but have their own set of nutritional and physiological needs.
        
        While everyone’s body is different, there are patterns in physiology that are particular to most women and deeply impact their training, such as menstrual cycles.
        
        lacking a large and robust body of research to tailor training and competition around a fundamental aspect of many top athletes’ physiology.
        
        studies on high intensity interval training, the ketogenic diet and paleo intermittent fasting are all done on (often sedentary) men, then generalized over to the entire fitness population.
        
        severe lack of research on women’s physiology when they were trying to design shin guards. There were no studies on how to make a suitable fit for women, despite women having a much more variable sizing from the knee down than men do.
        
        The industry isn't really interested in representing all self identifying women, from their products to their stories
        
        The industry is even more alienating for trans women and intersex athletes, who face not only a lack of representation but a serious dearth of research, with debates and disagreements at the highest level about how and whether they can compete.
      - Income segregation
        
        Youth Sports divided by income gap
        
        “digital divide” in which poor children could fall behind their more affluent peers without equal access to technology. Today, with widespread internet access and smartphone ownership, the gap has narrowed sharply.
        
        A 2021 study of Seattle-area students from fifth grade through high school found that less affluent youth were less likely to participate in sports than their more affluent peers. The study also found that schoolers from more affluent families were three times as likely to meet physical exercise guidelines as less affluent schoolers.
        
        A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found that 70 percent of children from families with incomes above about $105,000 — four times the poverty line — participated in sports in 2020. Yet, participation was around 51 percent for families in a middle-income range, and just 31 percent for families at or below the poverty line.
        
        privatizing of youth sports
        
        Spending cuts and changing priorities at some public schools
        have curtailed physical education classes and organized sports.
        
        privatized youth sports
        have become a multibillion-dollar enterprise for families who can afford hundreds to thousands of dollars each season for club-team fees, uniforms, equipment, travel to
        tournaments and private coaching.
        
        cost for transport, equipment, training, accommodation and other expenses furthers income disparity in school sports
        
        families spend on average $1,188 per year per child for soccer, $1,002 for basketball, $714 for
        baseball and $581 for tackle football.
        
        reduced funding in sports by schools
  - - - Sports CCAs
      - Junior Sports Academy
      - Active SG & credits
      - SportsCares
        
        enable children from low-income families to also be
        included.
        
        SportCares Bursary covers seasonal participation fees for 9
        ActiveSG Academies & Clubs. The entire season is covered by the bursary.
        
        Other programmes, like the Saturday Night Lights football programme, help to
        equip youths with holistic life skills, using sport as a medium.
    - - Inter-Constituency and Inter-GRC Community
        Championship as part of Pesta Sukan, which means Festival of Sports.
        
        Increase community spirit
      - National School Games
    - - free-to-play facilities like basketball or futsal courts in HDB estates
        
        badminton or sepak takraw courts which often double up as pickleball
        courts
      - Sports Facilities Master Plan: building up an island-wide network of world-class sporting facilities in heartland neighbourhoods
        
        Toa Payoh Integrated Development
        
        Punggol Regional Sports Complex
        
        Kallang tennis hub and football hub
        
        new basketball courts in former Bedok Swimming Complex and and a softball/baseball facility will open at the in Jurong East
        
        Bukit Canberra sports hub
        
        ActiveSG Sport Village @ Jurong Town
      - Disability Sports Master Plan
        
        national governing body is on track to make all ActiveSG gyms inclusive by 2026.
        
        Over the years, SportSG has retrofitted swimming pools with ramps for wheelchairs at eight ActiveSG Sport Centres, with two more pools being retrofitted by 2025, and we have built eight Inclusive ActiveSG gyms.
        
        more than 3,000 individuals have attended Disability Awareness Training and various coaching and technical courses to better support PwDs’ participation in sports, to allow them to take place actively in these programmes.
        
        learn-to-play programmes such as Yes! I Can and Play-Ability festivals where both persons with disabilities and those without can come together and play sports such as swimming, badminton, basketball, archery and shooting.
        
        SportSG is also developing an inclusive gym train-the-trainer programme, which will be a more structured approach to equip Fitness Instructors with the relevant skills to guide PwDs and recommend suitable exercises for them.
    - - catalyse even more support for our national athletes
        
        additional resources will also mean that these sports can encourage more
        grassroots participation
    - - Supporting Elite Athletes
        
        SpexScholarship programme,
        
        provides a monthly stipend to athletes. This is so that they can be full-time athletes, and free from distractions.
        
        funding for their training and travels for
        competitions, here and abroad also provided
        
        supported by a Sports Science team in areas such as Sport
        Biomechanics, Sport Nutrition, Sport Physiology, and Physiotherapy.
        
        curated coaching programmes, and help them with diet, sleep, recovery and preparation
      - put new talents through structured development pathways with comprehensive support programme either by the Sport Science Institute or the NSA.
        
        Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA)’s Junior Development Squad (JDS) have built up a strong pipeline of local talents.
        
        STTA and the Singapore Sports School also work closely together to set up the School
        Within A School programme, helping such young athletes catch up with school
        
        spexEducation scheme helps them manage both sports and education by supporting them with school admissions, scholarships, and scheduling
        classes around training and competitions.
        
        athletes who have finished with school, and are seeking to enter the workforce, they can apply to spexBusiness partners, including corporates like Grab, CapitaLand, DBS, and Quest Ventures.
        
        When athletes need to go for training even if there are not on the spexScholarship or spexBusiness programme there is spexTAG (training allowance grant) to help defray athletes’ training cost
        
        For those who miss work while preparing for or competing at Major Games, spexGLOW offsets lost wages.
        
        the spexPotential programme will support more youth athletes making the transition to the next level.
        
        SpexPotential will provide financial and programmatic support, such as coaching, overseas training and competition, local training, sports science and sports medicine and equipment for our junior athletes. This will give them more support to realise their potential.
- - - - providing employment
        
        income in clubs and sports personnel
        
        Media broadcasting rights; commercial sponsors, endorsements, partnerships
        
        attracts more into sports industry
        
        some of the highest earning sports personnel have endorsement deals with brands such as Nike and Adidas to the tune of billions. Besides, partnerships with sports betting companies and online casinos often bring in millions of dollars. This could be through casino-sports sponsorship deals, as with most European football teams, or by allowing these online gambling sites to show live sports events on their websites.
      - create tax revenue
        
        sports personnel
        
        sports clubs and entrance proceeds
        
        betting corporations
        
        Nigeria has a gambling population of about 60 million, betting an estimated $5.5 million daily
      - spark infrastructural development
        
        influencing sports and city infrastructure development
        
        stadiums, sport complexes, tracks, stands
        
        Sanfrecce Hiroshima stadium
        
        F1 Tracks
        
        Kallang Indoor Arena
        
        To replace Kallang Indoor Stadium
        
        Developing countries should work closely with the private sector to invest significantly in sports infrastructure. However, since facilities such as arenas and stadiums are often expensive, the responsibility will often lie more on the government than on private investors.
        
        Consolidation of resources would be fundamental, too, because the nation’s resources may be already strained. The maximum impact will be felt by sticking to select sports with great potential rather than distributing meager resources amongst all the games available in the country.
      - promoting foreign exchange
        
        Hosting international events and players
        
        supports industries through tourism, accommodation and F&B
        
        Egypt registered a record $83 million revenue for hosting the finals of the biennial African Cup of Nations in 2019.
        
        player market for developing countries
      - The benefits of sports to any developing country are indisputable. They form an interdependent relationship where sporting activities contribute to social-economic growth while the economy contributes to a healthier sports industry. At the heart of it all is a supportive government that takes initiatives to improve the sports industry through better policies, funding, and establishing international ties.
    - - Promote international relations
      - Sports development
        
        sports institutions
        
        sports utilities
    - - vehicle for well-being, tolerance
        and a means of raising awareness and lessening the cultural divide.
      - attributed to helping form stronger societal bonds and boosting self-esteem for the younger
        generation.
      - addressing and raising awareness of key societal issues.
        
        Sports orgs
        
        the NBA established a social justice coalition, a board of players, coaches and
        governors, to promote civic engagement, voting and reform to police and criminal justice.
        
        established a foundation and is committing $300 million in funding over the next 10 years to promote skills development, employment and career advancement among Black youth in the US & Canada
        
        Players wore jerseys with custom social justice statements to promote the Black Lives Matter movement, and the teams even collaborated with local elections officials to convert their stadiums to polling centres with safety measures to encourage voting during presidential elections in the US.
        
        Sports icons
        
        “Salah effect” generated by Liverpool FC’s Mo Salah that has enabled cultural acceptance of Islam amongst British fans, athletes can promote diversity and tolerance, helping to build understanding towards communities that face cultural marginalization.
        
        during the COVID-19 lockdown, Marcus Rashford, England’s football striker, helped introduce a campaign to feed more than 1.5 million vulnerable children that were unable to get free school meals due to school closures.
        
        tackle cultural barriers
        
        The International Olympic Committee opened Pride House Tokyo, a permanent community hub for LGBTQ+
        peoples in Tokyo as part of its ongoing planning for the Tokyo Summer Olympics in July 2021.
      - A powerful unifying force that helps us transcend our differences
        
        In the 2018 Winter Olympics, North Korean and South Korean athletes marched under a unified flag, a significant tender of peace between the countries; both countries even fielded a unified ice hockey women’s
        team.
        
        Singaporeans rallying behind their national heroes in sports, remembering and cherishing their achievements, igniting a shared singapore spirit
        
        Joseph Schooling's Olympic Gold
        
        Loh Kean Yew becomes world champion
        
        Shanti Pereira becomes 1st in Asia in World Athletic Records
  - - - pro gamers will practice - or scrim - with their teams for up to 10 hours a day. Practice includes competing against other high-level teams, studying previous matches to find areas of improvement, and analyzing their opponents’ playstyles and strategies. Just like traditional athletes, pro gamers have a coach who guides them through these practices. And just like in traditional sports, the coaches and managers oftentimes feel an immense pressure to perform.
        
        The tournament and training schedules are often so intense that some players retire after only a few years playing competitively, choosing to stream or quit playing entirely instead.
        
        To stay healthy enough to handle this pressure and intense practice, esports pros are utilizing the team’s personal trainers when they’re not scrimming. In order to stay fit enough to compete, teams often maintain a consistent gym routine.
        
        A study by Nikkei found that esports athletes see the game differently than a casual player. The study outlined just how different both players utilized the screen in front of them. The casual player’s eyes darted around the screen, taking in everything. Meanwhile, the pro player stayed focused on the center of the screen or on exact areas where he knew an enemy would be thanks to years of practice and a natural ability to multitask beyond the norm.
        
        Pinpoint accuracy, problem solving, communication, and teamwork are all mandatory skills for young players looking to impress top-ranked organizations. And once they’re scouted at a college tournament and signed to the big leagues, it’s all about training, training, training to be the best.