Dzurinda under pressure: football and hockey desire National centre as well

Zdroj: SME

The new draft law on sports is already prepared. In the autumn it will be discussed in the parliament. This is at least the idea of the Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda. Yesterday he devoted to sport activities. In the morning he ran his fifth National Run Devin-Bratislava (in a runtime 57:57), in the evening he watched the ice hockey league finale and in the meantime he met media to explain his vision of sport in the Slovakia.

The Prime Minister has chosen up a team of advisers, led by the lawyer and sport manager Jozef Tokos, who designs complex solutions to problems of Slovak sport. Sport falls under the Ministry of Education that has already worked out the draft law, still known only among small group of people. Shortly before the interdepartmental process of comments the draft law has been shifted to the Prime Minister. “We intend to discuss it in the autumn, in September,” stated the Prime Minister.

“I do have a dilemma. After building the national tennis centre we have to deal with football and hockey as well,” admits the pressure from the side of sport representatives. “We have to consider carefully how heavy burden we are able to bear.” There are two dominant intents: to support sport at schools, the Prime Minister’s most popular subject - physical education, even at the cost of changes in legislation and support state representation, conditioned by strong differentiation of sports on the bases of their rating.