Professional Athletes Persuasive Essay

“It’s always an honor to be able to represent your country at the highest level” -Terri McKeever (bustle.com). Whether you are a professional athlete or an amateur athlete it has always been a dream to represent your country at the Olympics. The Question is should professional athletes be able to compete? Some think they shouldn’t but professional athletes have worked just as hard or maybe even harder than anyone else to get to that level. Professional athletes are the top athletes in the world which would create more revenue for the Olympics, a sense of national pride when winning for your country, and they are paid millions of dollars to do their sport why would you not let them compete?

Throughout the years the Olympics keep on growing in size with bigger opening ceremonies, more people going to watch, more people competing, but most of all the revenue has
Therefore, it creates some great moments. For example, when Andre De Grasse won silver in the hundred meter run this year all of Canada was cheering him on. Or for the Americans when they had the basketball “dream team” in 1992 all of America was cheering them on. Last but not least, when Sidney Crosby scored the golden goal all of Canada was cheering with neighbours, friends,and family. All of these iconic moments came from professional athletes and will be in the sports books for decades. The athletes also need a sense of freedom so they can choose if they want to go to the olympics or not. This will create an extra holiday for the athletes who do not go to the Olympics. Which is an good thing to get your legs back for the second half of the season. If the IOC did not let athletes compete it would mean some of the greatest olympic moments would have never happened, also there would be no extra break for they ones who do not go to the