The extinguishing of the Olympic flame recently signalled the end of the 30th Modern
Olympic Games, which will be remembered for a long time by a lot of people in many
respects. The British surpassed themselves, so to speak, with the organisation and
running of the games. They proved just how important careful and detailed preparation
is for every event. And this is no different for canine events, although even our
biggest events can nowhere near match the participation and response levels of the
Olympics, of course. You have to wonder why even little known sports can lure so
many viewers to the TV screens while our major events, which undoubtedly exist,
are mostly well and truly ignored by the TV stations. This topic was dealt with
to some extent during the scientific symposium held last year, at which ways were
demonstrated in which this aspect can be improved. It is now up to us to analyse
and improve this situation. The likely answer to this question is “action”. Nowadays,
this requirement would appear to be best met by the Agility discipline, which can
usually also attract large numbers of spectators.
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