sports opinion

Olympic champion industry

Hussein Al Shaibani

30 July 2021

When we watch, through social media, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, a role model for young athletes, playing a game of bow and arrow, His Highness sends a message to young athletes that sports are not only football, but that there are other sports that can be We practice them and make them into future champions, and the goal is to spread these games and change the culture of athletes, which is limited to football only.

It has been missed by those responsible for Emirati sports that the Olympic champion is being made in sports factories, from academies and medical centers, that refine talents from a young age and are programmed according to scientific plans, under the supervision of highly specialized competencies that determine the type of food, sleep schedules, training periods, and the smallest details (type of shoes, air purity , and the quantities of water drinking), thus they calculate it carefully.

The hero industry in the West is not different from the manufacture of cars, missiles and planes, for all its strength, speed and ability in numbers, and the hero in the factories of the West is made by mathematics, emerging talent, training, specialist, professional technical, medical and administrative staff, modern stadiums and equipment, a sound mind, an Olympic champion.

Arabs sleep for years and wake up days before the Olympics, so they rush to train and raise the pace, build palaces of dreams, and come out with failure after failure, so how can we produce Olympic champions, there are Arab champions who achieve some medals because they were made in Western factories.

Arabs do not keep pace with the world in making champions in global ways, they still consider sports as a hobby for entertainment, we need a revolution in minds to enter the stage of making Olympic champions, discovering champions consists of schools and school sports, and also discovering shooting champions from the armed forces and police, and where we are from marine sports Sports for grandparents, kayaking of all kinds, windsurfing and boat racing

The talents are there, but we lack planning and specialized minds in the field of Olympic sports and specialists, not the loose words that we are tired of from sports officials who sell illusion in order to preserve their chairs for life, and struggles to reach the chair only.

We call for the establishment of a mini Olympic village that includes some of the games included in the Olympics, especially individual games, such as archery, bow and arrow, fencing, and other games, and this village serves as a factory for the manufacture of Emirati champions who represent the country in international and continental forums and achieve achievements, and the village is under the supervision of minds specialized in the field of games. Olympic, such as the use of experts, coaches and supervisors of the village from Russia, "a developed country in the field of Olympic sports."