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When schools close, municipalities should help sports associations to maintain safe outdoor exercise in small groups.
The city of Stockholm does the opposite.
Is awesome.
I don’t care about elite sports.
It brings us together and excites us. It inspires us to try it for ourselves. It also serves as a kind of investigation into how tough, fast, and powerful the human body can become.
Yes, okay, but make no mistake on the side of power. Elite sports win in youth and grassroots sports, not the other way around. Professional sports are the carrot hanging on the rope, but the bottom line is that the donkey is squatting.
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Children play ice hockey.
Starting today, the city of Stockholm will close all sports facilities, both indoor and outdoor. You are not allowed to go ice skating or go to swimming school and any spontaneous group activities are discouraged. As if to get thousands of red-gray eyes, the sports administration adds that it is important to move and exercise.
Meanwhile, elite sports continue. They work.
Fool
In the golden age of cross security, you should be careful not to say what something is like. But I can do something so modern, I can feel.
It seems that the city of Stockholm has made a foolish decision. It feels like I’ve misunderstood the new government and FHM restrictions. It seems that the sports stop is fraught with dangers.
When schools take the Christmas leave, the children must activate in an infection-proof manner. Nobody feels good sitting inside all day. It is often enough to spend a few hours in outdoor physical activity to calm restless legs, which is exactly what our sports associations do.
Clubs are more likely to be able to conduct safe outdoor workouts in small groups than all children alone need to ensure their need for exercise and socialization. Or that all the stressed parents of the weekend had time. The risk when tens of thousands of young people do not get their daily dose of exercise is that they do other things to cure boredom, that they socialize in more insecure premises.
Needs to be tested and encouraged
The pandemic is disgusting. It forces us back into a kind of basic human situation where nothing is really fun anymore. We just endure, avoid, frame the days. If you’ve worked at home or been unemployed this fall, you know how fundamental it is to walk, having stupid chats with passing strangers.
Children don’t walk around lakes alone. They need to be piloted and encouraged.
This Christmas, our incomparable network of non-profit sports clubs could have played an even bigger role than usual. They could have gone to training during the day, maybe five and five, mixed games with competitions, also inviting non-members, all outside and starting with elbow salutes.
They needed support to cope. Preferably a few words of encouragement from above, better yet an economic supplement to be able to take a few hours off from work or buy extra material in times of crisis.
Instead, Stockholm’s sports associations are temporarily shutting down their operations today. Hope it helps prevent the spread of infection, but it doesn’t feel like that.
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