Sadness and joy at the National Sports Festival

(Baonghean) - The 7th National Sports Festival taking place in Nam Dinh province is a major sporting event of the whole country.water.

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism declared the opening of the National Sports Festival

Firstly, it was a mistake to choose the sports competition schedule in the congress according to the model of concentrating on the last 2 weeks of December. This is the time when localities prepare for the year-end summary and set out directions and targets for the new year rather than focusing on the spirit and material resources to compete. Secondly, the Sports Congress coincided with the time of the AFF Suzuki Cup 2014. The evidence, also in the football category, at the congress, the men's and women's football competitions had only a few hundred spectators scattered in the vast stands at Thien Truong, quite different from the My Dinh stands in the matches of the national team. Explaining this, the congress's organizing committee also reported that they chose the time "at the end of the year" as a "last resort" because it had been postponed twice due to the impact of the preparation plan of the Vietnamese sports delegation at the 17th ASIAD as well as the construction works serving the congress being behind schedule compared to the plan.

The achievements of the National Sports Festival are always highly appreciated in terms of expertise, because it evaluates the performance of units after 4 years. Units with good achievements will receive more investment, while units that work ineffectively may have to cut costs. Achievements are determined by the medals won. For that reason, athletes of the units always find ways to achieve their goals, so many scandals have occurred at this congress. In wrestling, the attraction for fans is not from the medals that the delegations have won, but from the scandal that just happened: athlete Le Duy Hoi of Can Tho team rushed onto the mat to beat the referee, coach Nghiem Xuan Thai of Can Tho had insulted the main referee because he thought he was being unfairly treated. Previously, on December 4, because he thought that the referee Nguyen Duc Tho made a wrong call, coach Dinh Van Kien of Thua Thien - Hue team swung his leg, threw his shoes and had aggressive behavior that almost led to a fight.

Previously, there was also a lawsuit in table tennis. Although knowing that it was not good, showing the weakness in athlete training, many localities still did it, even very enthusiastically. For example, the Hung Yen team was disqualified for all athletes because of invalid records. However, some other provinces, cities and sectors were still able to use borrowed athletes because they foresaw this and circumvented the law to hire athletes very early; and after the National Sports Festival, these athletes will return to compete for their localities in the National Championship, Club Cup... so the lawsuits dragged on. Perhaps because of the burden of achievements, localities disregarded everything to do such paradoxical things, making the image of one of the key sports of Vietnam, table tennis, become ugly.

It is also necessary to mention the bright spots of the ongoing congress. That is, shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh shot past the world record at the 2014 National Sports Festival. In the final of the men's 10m air pistol event, the shooter of the Army team scored 207 points, far exceeding the old world record he set earlier this year (202.8 points). In addition, the gold medal that Thach Kim Tuan won in weightlifting is very admirable when he successively surpassed seniors like Huy Toan in the snatch and clean and jerk events. Athlete Vu Thi Huong continued to win the gold medal in athletics at this year's congress to show that in the domestic arena, she has no rival. Or in football, the "golden girl" of Vietnamese football, Van Thi Thanh, also won a gold medal as head coach of the team; or coach Ngo Quang Truong has the opportunity to win a gold medal in men's football with SLNA in his first time in the new position of head coach leading the Nghe An team...

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