In Nouakchott, the capital of the country there are only a handful places for practicing, and people didn’t flock in either. The sports time doesn’t exist in the mind of the majority of the people, while there’s time for businesses, for entertainment for debates and many other things.
If you reach a certain age, and you dare wear a sport jacket out in the street, you will attract the people attention, and comments. In Nouakchott, it’s almost forbidden to go jogging if you’re a grown person, and people see it as a shameful and childish activity.
Even though, the science have proved the benefits of the sport and its role in improving the health and preventing body from many serious diseases, in Mauritania we still reluctant to do it, and prefer queuing in front of the hospital gates, paying medical bills and destroying our body by chemical treatments usually without any result.
If you reach a certain age, and you dare wear a sport jacket out in the street, you will attract the people attention, and comments. In Nouakchott, it’s almost forbidden to go jogging if you’re a grown person, and people see it as a shameful and childish activity.
Even though, the science have proved the benefits of the sport and its role in improving the health and preventing body from many serious diseases, in Mauritania we still reluctant to do it, and prefer queuing in front of the hospital gates, paying medical bills and destroying our body by chemical treatments usually without any result.
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