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Turkmenistan: Build Athletes, Not Stadiums

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Turkmenistan, Citizen Media, Sport

My countrymen appreciate the new [sports] infrastructure…, but they generally feel that what really needs to be built aren’t facilities, but actual athletes.

Annasoltan on NewEurasia.net suggests [1] that instead of building lavish stadiums and gyms,Turkmenistan should focus on training athletes that would be able to win international competitions. Yet, she explains [1] why this is not likely to happen:

…I suspect that developing real athletes would risk drawing attention away from our supernatural president [2] – martial artists, horseback rider and race car driver par excellence.