Actually, It will be ideal for government to spend their money for both art and olympic team. However, if money is limited to invest for them, government has to invest for olympic team. This is because national olympic team is effective to inform their own countries to the world. Also, through their good results, citizens can be more cooperated.
To begin with, countries' governments are needed to invest their money for the olympic sports team because the olympic is good chance to inform countries to the world people. Whenever the olympic publishes, a substantial number of people in the world watches the olympic games on TV. Thus, through athletes' fair plays and excellent sports skills, countries can gain good image from the world people. Also, especially, for poor countries, the olympic is good opportunities to enhance their status in the world because regardless of their economic status, they can be evaluated by their sports abilities in the olympic. From my experience, Argentina is best example that demonstrates this. When I was young, Argentina was renowned due to their excellent soccer abilities. Their top players' plays made me impressive and thus every Worldcup, I cheered them. At that time, the ranking in the Worldcup, enabled me to regard it as their economic one in the world. and thus, I could trusted their all electric equipments and foods. This demonstrates that the ranking in big sports game plays a significant role in making good image.
In addition, through the olympic team's good result in the olympic, citizens can get community spirit. In the olympic, many prominent national sports teams from the world participate in various type of games and all teams compete each other to win gold medals. Especially, when their national teams win games with countries which are against them, all citizens can be impressive and excited. For example, last olympic, Korean national baseball team was best example of this, At first, they were not expected to win gold medal because there were many prominent teams in baseball part. However, against all expectation, they subdued every teams in all stages continously and eventually won the gold medal. When they got the gold medal, all citizens in the Korea got out of home and enjoyed parties on the road. At that time, all people became friends and seemed happy. |