Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-09-07-Speech-4-042"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-09-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Sport2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000907.1.4-042"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-09-07-Speech-4-0432
lpv:speaker	lp:Ulpu Iivari2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2001-05-13)3,3 substitute; BUDG (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue/Finlands Socialdemokratiska Parti (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; PETI (1999-09-16--2000-10-26)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, sport has become a magnificent form of international entertainment. It is a source of inspiration for millions and huge sums of money are involved in it. Thousands of Finnish people travel to Hungary to see Mika Häkkinen drive, while a Vietnamese hotel receptionist asks the right way to pronounce the name Jari Litmanen. The importance of sport and exercise both for societies and for individuals must not, however, get buried under professionalism and commercialism. Exercise is educationally important and vital for health. Sports societies bring people together to do self-sacrificing voluntary work. Along with the positive aspects, we have to remember the flip side of the coin – drugs, violence at sports events and the negative elements associated with player transfers. To prevent these we need joint action on the part of the Union and a legal base for sport. As we shape sports policy we have to take account of sport’s various structures. For that reason, we must ensure that we continue to listen to sport’s NGOs at the Olympics in the wake of the sports conference held in 1999. Finally, I would like to turn your attention to the need to improve levels of gender equality in sport and exercise. The European Woman and Sport network conference held in June in Helsinki made recommendations which I hope will be taken into consideration at both national and Union level. I would like to thank the rapporteurs for their exhaustive work, and I want to express my heartfelt thanks, too, to the President-in-Office of the Council and the Member of the Commission for their excellent speeches at the start of this sitting."@en1

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