{"id":34299,"date":"2021-03-25T10:38:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T10:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/?p=34299"},"modified":"2021-03-25T10:38:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T10:38:05","slug":"sheffields-ice-skating-community-furious-over-lack-of-government-support-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/25\/sheffields-ice-skating-community-furious-over-lack-of-government-support-during-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield\u2019s ice-skating community furious over lack of Government support during the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield\u2019s ice-skating community was furious after the Government failed to support ice-skating rinks throughout the three national lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>This news came after the Government categorised ice-skating rinks as entertainment facilities, instead of sports venues during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor Hayes,19, an elite figure skater from Sheffield was \u2018extremely annoyed\u2019 after she was unable to train for over six months last year, which stopped her from competing in national competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Hayes said: \u201cThe fact that the Government classed figure skating as entertainment rather than a sport is disgraceful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFigure skating is the oldest winter Olympic sport, it meant that I couldn\u2019t train for months because the ice rinks weren\u2019t allowed to open however, other sports such as football and athletics were able to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cIce skating is one of the hardest sports and gets no recognition from the Government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eleanor Hayes Skating\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Udhfs4ZU_bk?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Government measures meant that many ice-skating rinks including IceSheffield faced months of closures.<\/p>\n<p>David Hartley, President of British Ice Skating based in Sheffield, said: \u201cNow would be a busy period for ice rinks who are now struggling after being categorised as entertainment, which has had a massive impact and the government are not giving a reason why.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they see skating as leisure rather than sport, if you\u2019re classed as an Olympic sport and attend the Olympic games you\u2019re classed as a sport not entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the reopening of ice-rinks to the under 18\u2019s from 12 April, Mr Hartley hoped the government would do more in the future to support the younger generation of athletes.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI think one of the things they need to do is really focus on getting kids back into sport and getting them active again, this should be a priority of the government because kids have been so inactive under the lockdown restrictions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield ice-skating community furious after the Government\u2019s failure to support ice-skating venues throughout the three national lockdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":34301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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