Exclusive sports complexes

@tungstentee wrote:

Does anyone have any examples of exclusive sports complexes or “centres of excellence” that i need precedents for. So far in Ireland all i can think of is Breaffy House in Mayo. Any international egs would be appreciated 🙂

On the international stage “Aspire” in Dubai springs to mind.

What do you mean by ‘exclusive sports complexes’, tungstentee? There are fancy sports centres around the country, but I think you want something more specific, yes?
Most big US universities would have sports facilities that’d put Irish ‘centres of excellence’ to shame (not least in the spelling / grammar department).

Breaffy Internation [sic] Sports Hotel

In today’s intense world of sport, planning and monitoring are of utmost importance to a winning team. Breaffy International Sports Hotels understands [sic] this, and as a result have designed facilities which will foster and develop sporting skills. With our facilities your team can maximise its potential by recognising their [sic] strengths and weaknesses while helping to establish a strengthen communication between players and management.

http://www.breaffyhouseresort.com/lspa2/www/breaffy-international-sports-hotel.html

Number agreement seems not to be their strong points.

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There’s the cryotherapy / ice chambers in Spala in Poland (favoured by the Irish Rugby Squad – bless), and I’ve just seen that White’s Hotel in Wexford Town has Europe’s only other cryotherapy centre, modelled on the Spala facility and opened about 6 months ago. But wouldn’t you know it, they couldn’t just call it ‘The White’s Hotel Sports and Cryotherapy Centre’- it’s been christened ‘The Tranquillity Spa’. Nice. :rolleyes:

The National Sports Centre is at UL … compares pretty well with others internationally from what i’ve heard.

http://rhw.ul.ie/universityarena/arena.html

Clarefontaine in France is a centre of excellence for soccer players, there was one in England too but that’s been closed down.