Conference on Youth Sport - Karlovy Vary.

There is no other way to spend a Sunday than on the way to Carlsbad and back. But the invitation to the Conference on Supporting Youth Sports in the Regions fit perfectly with my activities of the last few years. The solid lineup of speakers and the announced refreshments made the difference. The Imperial Hotel was a very dignified setting. Jan Pirk's interesting input was logically focused mainly on the health circumstances of youth sports and was spiced up with some funny pictures. The presentation of the Cheps Cup revealed the phenomenon of floorball with its power. The regional point of view of the deputy governors was rather slightly impassive and resulted in a kind of "waiting for the Rotten One" who, unlike the proverbial Godot, came. Relatively frequent remarks were made about the young generation with mobile phones and tablets in their hands and the time thirty years ago when everyone played football or hockey somewhere behind the house. In contrast, David Svoboda and Tomáš Verner's sympathetic inserts were a picture of the real, contemporary sports world of the Czech business style, as presented by the younger generation. The highlight of the programme was a panel discussion with the participation of the head of the National Agency for Sport Milan Hnilicka. Pokorná Jermanová, Stráská and the Deputy Governor of the Karlovy Vary Region, Mračková Vildumetzová, joined as the three judges. In principle, nothing new was said in the discussion, except perhaps for the modified familiar phrases cunningly uttered by Pokorná Jermanová. Among the really cool ones were: 'Bombshell' and 'A walk in the pink forest'. But no one in the audience noticed these gems, and so everything was directed to the final summary by the President of the Czech Olympic Committee Jiří Kejval. Some of the figures presented in his summary were interesting, such as the figure of one hundred and sixty billion spent by citizens on sporting activities per year, or the result of a research that says that a crown invested in sport brings savings of nearly three crowns in health care costs. But Jan Pokorný is wrapping up the conference and it's time to move on to the opening of the Youth Olympics.