News article: Melbourne wins gold for sporting capital of the world

Melbourne wins gold for sporting capital of the world

Melbourne was always considered as the sporting capital of the world for a very long time and for the first time this will be proven.

“This award confirms what we have all known for a long time – Melbourne is the sporting capital of the world,” Mr Holding said.  When Melbourne was crowned the sporting capital of the world in 2008.

He also claimed that Melbourne is not only one of the world’s great sporting cities, it is claim to be one of the world’s great event cities with a calendar of major events all year round.

Melbourne doesn’t only host one of four Tennis Grand Slams in the world, but it also host other important international sporting events such as Formula 1 Grand Prix, Boxing Day Test, Spring Racing Carnival and the Socceroos World Cup qualifiers, but also the AFL Grand Final. But other than being the host of many sporting events, doesn’t earn a city: the sporting capital of the world title, the facilities and venues is also taken into consideration.

During our research to continue to prove that Melbourne is the sporting capital of the world, we interviewed a very interesting person: Monique, who was our tour guide for the Rod Laver Arena walking tour at the foyer of Rod Laver Arena. Monique has knowledge about sport, especially tennis, as she started to play at the age of five and still currently playing tennis.

We utilized her knowledge in the field of sport and she agreed that Melbourne is the sporting capital of the world. “I would say it’s one of the best, it’s got everything varied from running tracks to swimming, to arenas, to even having the velodrome track at high sense arena so it covers every sport and at high quality. So I would say....Yes.”

She also prove it when she answered: “We have got AMII Park which has soccer and rugby, Australian football at the MCG and Etihad stadium, Mcg having the cricket as well, there is even swimming events around Albert park so it really does cater for all different sports and it’s also so close to the city. For tennis just as an example we have 22 outdoor courts, the 7 indoor courts, the 2 arenas, it’s just a huge space and it’s pretty hard to compete against all that. So definitely think that Melbourne is the most appropriate city to be named: sporting capital of the world. “

The interview became increasingly more interesting when we asked her about how the redevelopment of Rod Laver Arena can have on the amount of people coming to the Australian Open. “I think with the redevelopment it will promote how great our facilities are and how if you are interested in the game, tennis is great for you because you can come to our venue and play. Even if you are not a member you can just come with your mates and play on a show court and have the audience around you’re pretending to be one of the famous people and thinking, “this is kind of cool!”. SO yeah, I would say that it does promote that tennis will be around here in Melbourne for at least another 30 years.”

Furthermore, Melbourne also cater all types of people and sports, and as Monique answered to one of our interview question. “Adult teaching classes and casual classes but we have new program called hot shots for the young juniors and that’s going in all the new schools around”

This really shows that Melbourne not only hosts the best international sporting events, but also have excellent and high quality facilities as sporting capital of the world and there is nowhere in the world that can match Melbourne.