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Locals could potentially misunderstood visitors, their behavior and beliefs could not match at all. Moreover, leakage is highly expected after event took place. As well as new infrastructure leaves abandoned and unused. Overall, it seems that negatives overweight positives, but in my opinion most of the negatives could be avoided by the government and local authorities hard work.

I would agree that some events such as sports and other activities have two sides relatively positive and negative which can impact directly or indirectly to the well being and development of the society, however, it is my view that the positive impacts outweighs the negative although these activities or events have the capacity to increase the economic viability of a particular society and the well being of the residents.

Furthermore, a well planned event will completely attract the participation of the residents by influencing and increasing the relationship boundaries shared. The art of hosting sports activities have proved to be a medium that creates socio-cultural benefits for the host community and a sense of community among the residents thereby creating an opportunity for cultural exchange between the host, the community, the visitors, the participants and the government including local business.

I defiantly agree that there are negative and positive effects of sports tourism in a Host Communities, however i believe that there are defiantly more positive impacts than negative for example it brings in more jobs and employments for the locals living in the area.

I also agree with the fact that sports events can have both positive and negative impacts on the host community. There are many positive long-term impacts which have a direct and indirect effect on the local community including job creation, improved infrastructure, and local economy boost.

Though, with that comes leakage, culture clash, and safety and security issues such as rising crime rates and overcrowding.

However, I believe that sports events such as the Olympics can potentially bring more good than harm to the local community. Better organisation and planning of mega events with more help from the local government and authorities could minimize the negative impacts. It is true that sport events create both positive and negative impacts but it cannot be argued which impacts are prevalent unless specific case studies are analysed because each case is different.

These facilities for which the government spent a huge amount of tax payers money, hoping to bring positive impacts to the country making the spending of this much money worth it, are now completely abandoned, they are not used by anyone and they are not even looked after. Although the many negatives, sport events can also bring positive impacts to the communities. Generally, if the cities demonstrate they are good at managing such events, this can help renovate the image of the place, and increase the awareness of it and this can help and increase the tourist numbers and tourist revenue helping the economic developments of the place.

It is clear that every event is going to have both flaws and strengths, however history has shown that there have been events that the positive effects can significantly outnumber the negative. The reason of LA games financial success was very simple because of the usage of existing buildings, usage of private investors money instead of taxpayers and high TV rights.

All this information is purely description however it is important to outline the foundation of the event to understand how they managed to overcome the arising constraints. It is essential to acknowledge what was the secret or not of this event that even though 30 years have passed, it still contributes to supporting local communities and sporting activities in the area.

Example of such input is the creation of LA84 Foundation which offers grants to youth athletes from Southern California helping them with further training, provides free training for coaches on how to better up their skills in passing on the knowledge and also encouraging the friendly running competition of school children. The other thing worth mentioning is that after the games legacy has supported the creation of U. S Olympic Endowment separate from IOC who has been the main sponsor of athletes going to the later Olympic which at first might seem as not such a big deal, but it can be critical especially in case when they can not rely on funding from other sources such as private sponsorship or endorsement deals.

In the times when more and more cities are discouraged from hosting Olympic games, it was more in place to use the case study of city that had such a big advantage of positives effects over negatives. I agree that sports tourism have both positive and negative impacts however I feel that it depends on how well prepared the countries hosting these events are.

Mega events are seen as a way of generating income especially from the tourism however there is a lot of investing that is needed before the profits can be made.

The exposure that these mega events bring is great so if a country has been nominated to host events like the Olympics they should fully take advantage of the opportunity especially those growing countries. An example to counties that experienced the negative impacts of these events is Brazil and Greece which has left both counties in recession and in massive debts.

They both spent billions in building the facilities to hold the Olympic games but as soon as the games were over so was the love and care for those facilities. These facilities have been abandoned leaving nature to take is cause because the countries lack finances to keep them open. The number of unemployment and people living in poverty has increased which means that less money is going back to the government in terms of tax.

These facilities have been abandoned leaving nature to take is cause because the county lacks finances to keep them open. Tennis matches in Tokyo will have later start times beginning Thursday in a move aimed at protecting players amid extreme heat and humidity.

The International Tennis Federation says matches will start at 3 p. Matches had been starting at 11 a. Several players struggled with heatstroke on Wednesday. Daniil Medvedev nearly fainted during his win over Fabio Fognini while Paula Badosa left the court in a wheelchair after retiring from her quarterfinal match against Marketa Vondrousova. The temperature rose to 88 degrees F 31 degrees C but the heat index made it feel like 99 degrees F 37 degrees C.

South Korea retained the title it won in Team saber was off the Olympic program for the last Games in Rio de Janeiro in The other three were won in the team archery competitions. Hungary took its third fencing medal in Tokyo with a win over Germany for the bronze medal. Arai reached her first Olympic final with three ippon victories, surviving a semifinal bout that lasted nearly 17 minutes against Russian athlete Madina Taimazova.

The two-time world champion then claimed gold over Polleres with an early waza ari at the Budokan. Arai is just the second Japanese woman to win gold out of five weight categories in Tokyo. Japan is still coming away from the first five days in its homegrown martial art with eight medals from 10 weight classes. The final three days of the Olympic tournament include five more opportunities for gold, including the first-ever mixed team competition Saturday.

Canadian gymnast Ellie Black has withdrawn from the all-around finals. The International Gymnastics Federation made the announcement on Wednesday. The year-old Black is competing in her third Olympics. A silver medalist at the world championships, Black came in 24th during qualifying at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre.

Black will be replaced by Lieke Wevers of The Netherlands in the finals. The decision came hours after reigning Olympic champion Simone Biles took herself out of the all-around competition to focus on her mental health. Kelsey Plum and Allisha Gray each made free throws to give the United States the winning margin in its win over France.

Latvia beat Belgium The total includes 20 athletes, though there were no new positive tests among athletes in the cases announced Wednesday.

Tens of thousands of people are accredited for the Games. That did not satisfy the International Judo Federation, who issued the warning a day after the incident shocked Olympic viewers.

Fiji has beaten New Zealand to successfully defend the title it won when rugby sevens made its Olympic debut at Rio de Janeiro in Now the Pacific island nation has two. Jerry Tuwai was in the squad five years ago and he led Fiji in its title defense in Tokyo, where they continued their unbeaten streak in Olympic games.

The silver medal was a vast improvement for New Zealand, which missed the podium in after an upset loss to Japan in its opening game and a quarterfinal loss to Fiji. All the medals went to the southern hemisphere, with Argentina beating finalist Britain for the bronze. South Africa, the bronze medalist in Rio, beat the United States in the playoff for fifth place. Djokovic is attempting to become the first man to achieve a Golden Slam by winning all four Grand Slam tournaments and Olympic gold in the same calendar year.

He has already won the Australian and French Opens plus Wimbledon this year. So now he needs the Tokyo Games title and the U. Open trophy to complete the unique collection. Djokovic is scheduled to play again later with Serbian partner Nina Stojanovic against Marcelo Melo and Luisa Stefani of Brazil in the opening round of the mixed doubles competition.

Nishikori reached his third straight Olympic quarterfinal by beating Ilya Ivashka of Belarus. Primoz Roglic has capped an incredible month for Slovenian cycling by winning the Olympic time trial. He added a gold medal to the bronze won by Tour de France champion Tadej Pogecar in the road race.

Rohan Dennis of Australia claimed the bronze medal. The prerace favorite, Italian time trial champ Filippo Ganna, faded over the final kilometers and finished fifth. Medvedev had just played through extreme heat to reach the quarterfinals. A second Swiss track team member who was supposed to compete at the Tokyo Olympics has been suspended in a doping case. Wilson tested positive for the anabolic steroid trenbolone in March. The court says he says it was caused by eating contaminated beef in the United States.

World Athletics and the World Anti-Doping Agency intervened with the court to ensure Wilson could not compete in Tokyo after a Swiss tribunal lifted his provisional ban. China has won its third gold medal in diving at the Tokyo Olympics. They finished with Andrew Capobianco and Michael Hixon of the U. Even with the loss, it still should be able to advance to the knockout round. Hungary trailed with left, but captain Rita Keszthelyi scored from deep and Parkes got the game-winner when she connected on a no-look goal with 45 seconds left.

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