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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "alone. A sports academy is a place where all the talents in various sporting activities will be congregating and training. This law will require that counties establish at least one sports academy. The law is amending the Sports Act with the requirement that counties set up a county academy management committee for sports. For the first time, when this law takes effect, we will see even in a place like Tana River County, a centre where people with talent, people who can run, people who can swim, people who can play volleyball, people who can do archery and other talents gathered at the cost of the county so that the sports and the talents that are in that county are exploited. The talents that exist amongst our youth can be developed. I have just given an example of that young man who was running. He wanted a sponsor who would help him to go outside the country and make a living. I tried to help him. However, when help is not institutionalised, then it is a one-off and it is not sustainable. This Bill provides an opportunity where people or young men and women who have talent can be given opportunities to grow their talent and make a living out of their talents. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when these sports academies are being set up across the counties, as is proposed in this Bill, it is not just the young people who are running, the young people who are talented in football, volleyball, netball, basketball and so on, who will benefit. Sports is a very big economy. The provisions of this Act, it says there will be, as an objective of the academy in the county, the need to collaborate with the academy in talent development within that county. I have come to discover that those talented people do not just need the coach who takes them for an early morning run and tells them you have to go to the boardroom to read the tactics of what happens in the field. They do not just need the coach who tell them that to be in the field and shoot these amount of baskets, you have to keep on practicing until there is a muscle retention of memory through practice. The economy of sports is very wide. There are psychologists in sports who study the psychology of sports and they are there to talk to athletes. It will provide employment opportunities to those people who are specializing in those areas. It would open our economy to those capacities so that they can be built within this Republic of Kenya and maybe exported to other places. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, some of these sporting talents, the talented young men and women, get injured not just in the field physically, but some are injured emotionally. Others suffer the normal problems we all suffer. Societal problems affect them and affect peak performance. A sports psychologist sits with you and helps you to recover. You may have gone through grief, you may have lost a very important game that has made you feel so low, so you are nursing depression. The sports psychologist is telling you that you can recover and regain your form. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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