Countries are often very keen to hold a major sporting event such as The Football World Cup or The Olympic Games.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of holding an important international sporting competition.
Those in charge of major nations are often desperate to stage top international football tournaments, athletics meetings or cycle races. Governments have been known to spend millions trying to persuade sporting organisations like The IOC to bring events to their areas. However, although holding a tournament can be advantageous and lucrative, potential bidders should not lose sight of the possible hazards and pitfalls.
Without doubt, the most obvious benefit is financial. New stadia, accommodation, transportation links and other infrastructure projects go ahead. This provides a boost for the local construction industry. Similarly, temporary service-sector jobs are created whilst the tournament is taking place. Finally, tourism is likely to increase, providing further economic prosperity.
A slightly less tangible advantage is related to national pride. Citizens feel rightly pleased that their nation has managed to stage such a prestigious event. The country’s reputation grows as it becomes connected with the success of the competition in question. This too could translate into economic success: businesses from a country associated with competence find it easier to do deals worldwide.
However, the downsides can be considerable. Firstly, the immense cost can exceed the profits. A region may need to borrow capital to fund building projects and could have to raise taxes significantly. In addition, the facilities and public amenities constructed might rarely be required again. Finally, there is the distinct possibility that something will go terribly wrong. Poor organisation, a transport-workers’ strike, political unrest or even a terrorist attack could mar a city’s reputation for generations.
Evidently, cities hoping to stage The Asian Games or The European Football Championships should recognise that, as well as substantial rewards, there are serious risks. They might produce an internationally-acclaimed success or a total disaster. I would recommend that political leaders think carefully before entering the bidding process.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, similarly, so, well, in addition, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 41.998997996 62% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1796.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 299.0 315.596192385 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.00668896321 5.12529762239 117% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.46235428966 2.80592935109 123% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.719063545151 0.561755894193 128% => OK
syllable_count: 540.9 506.74238477 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 2.52805611222 316% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 20.2975951904 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.2710270828 49.4020404114 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.5238095238 106.682146367 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.2380952381 20.7667163134 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.14285714286 7.06120827912 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.119759678685 0.244688304435 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0248312473645 0.084324248473 29% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0342635397379 0.0667982634062 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0588989706027 0.151304729494 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0632055757106 0.056905535591 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.0946893788 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.34 50.2224549098 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.99 12.4159519038 137% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.83 8.58950901804 126% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 78.4519038076 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.1190380762 75% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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