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Will the Olympics make future sportspeople?

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The Olympics is coming in 3 years time and Britain needs athletes to compete and hopefully win us medals. So how excited are young people about the Olympics and how can we encourage them to become more interested in sport?

We interviewed Steve Herbert of the Learning Trust and Mel Parker of Middlesex Sport Institute who agreed that the Olympics will be great inspiration for kids to work to achieve and train. Also this will encourage everyone to keep fit and exercise but will there be the training and preparation ready for these kids? All around the country people are building sports centers and pitches while the Olympic stadium is still a building site. This new generation will have the encouragement and inspiration, but will they work to achieve?

Students have mixed opinions on This, They discussed on what they like and why they like it. Some of them said they like Dance, some said Swimming, some said athletics and most of them said Basketball and Football.

The Olympics is quite an inspirational event for Hackney and for London. There will be lots of role models from within the British team
Mel Parker - Middlesex Sports Institute
Mel Parker

They also said why they like this sport. Most of them said they don't want to be fat and some said they want to stay fit and most of them said because its their Favourite sport.




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