Source: Global Times
[Global Times Special Correspondent Luke] "This generation of British people is facing the biggest loss of sports facilities," the British " Daily Telegraph " said on the 5th that this is one of the consequences of the energy crisis facing the new British Prime Minister Trass.
Statistics from the Sports Edition of the Daily Telegraph show that 85% of public leisure enterprises in the UK will close facilities in part or all within six months, as their energy bills rise 200% and are expected to rise 240% next year. Since 2019, 60 public swimming pools have closed in the UK, and more than half of the UK's private and public sports and leisure facilities will be partially or fully closed in the next year, according to UK Active, a non-profit health agency in the country. Olympic champion and famous British swimmer Adam Pitty has repeatedly warned that closing these public swimming pools "will completely lose the huge advantages that the British swimming team has shown at the Tokyo Olympics."
In addition to swimming, the "destructive" crisis of sports facilities also affects football programs. The British Football Association originally expected the government to fulfill its promise and increase the transformation of infrastructure such as stadiums, but now, in the view of UK Active CEO Hugh Edwards, "the British sports and leisure sector is on the edge of the cliff."
The Daily Telegraph analyzed that after taking office, the new British female Prime Minister Tras will face five specific problems in the field of sports: "Football Reform" - establishing an independent regulatory body to finalize the details of the new policies of football clubs; "Grassroots Sports" - dealing with the crisis in grassroots sports and public leisure facilities that the British people care about, and fulfilling the 550 million pounds of funding commitment given by former Prime Minister Johnson to improve infrastructure; "Sports Betting" - increasing the scrutiny of the sports betting industry and promoting backward regulations and regulations; "Campus Sports" - strengthening the proportion of sports in schools, raising physical education classes to the same level as mathematics, Chinese and science, and ensuring that students have sufficient activity time every week. In addition, health injuries occurring in sports activities, such as the association between football and dementia, are confirmed and effectively managed, and these diseases are included in the work-related injury to protect the rights and interests of athletes.
