eBusiness Weekly
Sports are a great way for people to maintain their physical fitness. Not only do sports help with physical well being, they help build positive personality traits such as teamwork, sacrifice and perseverance.
Everybody doesn’t need to play a sport at the professional level to reap its benefits (at least the non-financial ones).
However, most sports do require a little bit of financial investment from people’s end. For example, to play basketball, you will need to buy a basketball and a decent pair of basketball shoes. Some sports however, are not so cheap and simple to participate in.
In this post, we will discuss 10 most expensive sports in the world. These sports cost a lot of money to participate in. They might be fun and exciting, but your bank balance might not think so. Without further ado,
Pentathlon
Kicking off the list of the most expensive sports in the world, is the sport of pentathlon. By using simple logic, one can deduce that if a single sport actually involves five completely different sports, it’s going to be extremely expensive. And that’s one of the chief reasons why the pentathlon is on the most expensive sports in the world list.
The pentathlon consists of five events: running, shooting, fencing, swimming and show jumping. Since these sports are completely unrelated, a participant will need to hire five separate trainers and buy completely different gear for each of the five disciplines. After all, you can’t really use a fencing sword while shooting. Oh, and let’s not even get started on the horse you will need to buy and maintain for show jumping, we all know how expensive horses are.
Wing-suiting
OK, this sport seems more at home on the big screen in movies such as Point Break and Fast and the Furious, but as far as an adrenaline rush is concerned, few sports can match up to wing-suiting. After all, how many sports require you to glide like a flying squirrel thousands of feet above the earth’s surface?
However, for human beings, defying gravity isn’t easy or cheap, in fact it costs a lot of money. Kicking off the reasons for wing-suiting being on the most expensive sports in the world list, is the $2 500 wing-suit itself. Putting it on and jumping off a plane increases lift, but decreases your bank balance. You will also need to pay for skydiving lessons, plane rentals and astronomical insurance premiums, ensuring that both you and your expenses are sky-high.
Bob-sledding
This Winter Olympics staple is also very cold towards your wallet. The bobs-led itself costs around $25 000. Making your own bobs-led track might cost millions of dollars. The number of trainers for this sport is very limited, making each one of them very expensive. Oh and let’s not forget, it’s a team sport, so the cost of everything will be multiplied by four in the end. It can bring your bank balance down faster than a bobs-led descends down a track. And that features it on the most expensive sports in the world list.
Hot air balloon racing
This sport is kind of oxymoronic. After all, the last thing one can associate with hot air balloons, is speed. However, it is an actual sport with a decent fan following in the world. If you are wondering why it’s on the most expensive sports in the world list, here’s why: a hot air balloon costs around $20 000. Inflating the balloon can reach up to $9 000. Once you add the pilot’s licence cost of $3 000, this sport becomes really expensive.
Ski jumping
Ok, let’s make something very clear, jumping down a 5 foot ledge while on skis, is technically ski jumping, but that’s not the kind of ski jumping we are talking about here. Professional level ski jumping is a very expensive sport and a permanent fixture on every most expensive sports in the world list. The yearly expenses, including skiing equipment, coach, ski jumping slope etc., will add up to around $100,000. The only realistic way for non trust fund humans to do it, is to get the help of sponsors. — Daily Hawker.
