Mimi wrote:
€200, €100, €50... These are all massive financial barriers to many of the people living on our planet. It’s just whichever arbitrary limit you deem to be too high make no different. €500 might as well be €500,000 to many people. Sadly, we are never going to make all sports affordable. Formula 1, skiing, trampolining, crown green bowls... all out of reach for many people. It’s pretty impossible to say where a ‘fair’ limit would lie as wealth and access to sponsorship and facilities, or even basic food and clothing, are not fair.
Well, somewhere there's quite a big divide between sports which only demand a pair of sneakers and a ball, and others which demand more elaborate equipment. And those people for whom 500.000 isn't that much can't be too many. They're in the 1% after all.
This is something that kind of bugged me ever since i've remembered. When a sport has such a high barrier entry. Can i admire a good horseback rider the same way i can admire a good long distance runner? After all, they're not competing in a pool of even a comparable size.
End of rant.