General Paper Tuition Singapore A level General Paper Tuition Is sport overly concerned with achievements?

Topic: Sport

Issue: Is sport obsessed with achievements

Context: Global

Keywords: Achievement, Overly concerned

Define Keywords

1. Overly concerned –  over emphasis on
   1. Students must show that there is too much emphasis on achievements
2. Achievements –  Act of attaining or accomplishment
   1. Winning
3. Sport
   1. Students must use examples from various sports.

Sport is overly concerned with achievements

1. Funding is only allocated for Sports which do well (Win many trophies)
   1. In many countries, government funding is only allocated for Sports and athletes who have a history of winning medals.
      1. Singapore rower, Saiyidah Aisha did not receive funding from the government until she won her first gold medal in the sport after self funding her training for a few years.
      2. In India, most of the fund for Sport is allocated to cricket which is the most popular sport there. Interestingly, it is not their national sport (Hockey is), yet because of the numerous achievements that cricket has brought to the nation, large amounts of funding is being given to cricket.
         1. There have been many complains that the over emphasis on  Cricket (due to the numerous achievements)  in India has been hurting other sports,
            1. http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/All-things-bright/how-cricket-has-killed-other-forms-of-sport1/

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