Invest in improving physical facilities for high-performance sports

Over the past 2 years, the Thanh Hoa athletics team has been practicing every day in better conditions when the provincial stadium's sidewalk was replaced with a new, modern one. The quality of the team's training sessions has improved significantly, especially for talented athletes and young athletes. The quality running track has contributed to helping athletes continuously improve their performance, especially in Thanh Hoa's strong running distances such as 100m, 200m, 400m, 400m hurdles, 800m, 1.500m, and other running events. relay. In addition, the Provincial Sports Training and Competition Center has also purchased new equipment for athletes in the high jump, long jump, 3.000m obstacle course, especially the women's pole vault event. .

The above factors have helped the Thanh Hoa athletics team significantly improve the daily training and coaching of athletes. Thanks to that, in the past 3 years, the Thanh Hoa athletics team has regularly appeared in the top 3 at the national youth tournament.

As an Olympic sport, over the past years, the Thanh Hoa cycling team has continuously improved, winning many outstanding achievements at youth tournaments and national championships in both off-road and road content with the group. Talented athletes like Nguyen Van Lam, Le Thi Huyen, Tran Thi Mai... To achieve the above achievements, the Thanh Hoa cycling team not only had to make their best professional efforts, but also had to overcome difficulties in terms of conditions. infrastructure. The entire team currently has more than 10 bicycles, most of which are old, with only 1 new mountain bike purchased in 2022 to serve the XNUMXth National Sports Festival. In fact, there have been many times when the Thanh Hoa cycling team had to borrow bikes to compete. The teachers and students of the Thanh Hoa bicycle team also double as car mechanics when they don't have a new bike yet. Faced with the above difficulties, the Thanh Hoa bicycle team was flexible and overcame difficulties by purchasing more bicycles from social sources to participate in tournaments such as HTV Cup, Binh Duong Women's Bicycle Cup, and national youth tournament. national championship in both road and terrain content to bring high achievements to the province.

Meanwhile, the training floors for martial arts disciplines have been arranged and rearranged by the Training Center in parallel with repairing and upgrading the main building. Along with investing in buying new practice mats, the teams of vovinam, karate, teakwondo, judo, pencak silat, wrestling... have a better place to practice than before. This has helped the coaching staff and athletes of the teams feel secure and put their best efforts in training and competition. Some other sports such as weightlifting, sepak takraw, and women's volleyball are gradually being improved, improving training conditions. However, there are still many subjects that have difficulty in terms of facilities, typically swimming and diving. These two teams still have to practice at the swimming pool of the Provincial Sports Training and Competition Center, which is more than 40 years old. The substandard swimming pool has significantly affected the quality of training and competition. In addition, the shooting team often runs out of bullets, and the fencing team has to borrow swords...

Overall, Thanh Hoa currently has 31 sports with nearly 700 athletes, however, the conditions of facilities and equipment for high-performance sports are degraded and outdated compared to current requirements.

To promote the potential, human factors and achieved achievements, take advantage of favorable conditions, overcome difficulties and problems in high-performance sports, in the coming time, the Department of Culture and Sports Sports and Tourism will advise the province to pay attention to investing in funding to build facilities, purchase high-performance sports equipment and tools that meet modern standards; Purchasing health care and physical recovery equipment for athletes.

For large projects such as the Provincial Sports Stadium, the swimming pool of the Provincial Sports Training and Competition Center and some other items, the industry will have proposals for repair and upgrade. For talented athletes, the industry will have a special support mechanism in terms of equipment, training and competition tools, creating the best conditions to join the youth team and the national team, and receive training at training centers. National training centers and other locations in the country have better facilities.