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Discrimination in Sport

Proceeding contribution from Alex Sobel (Labour) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 12 June 2019. It occurred during Opposition day on Discrimination in Sport.

There is another form of discrimination relating to the second largest team sport played by black and minority ethnic people, marginalised communities and 11 to 15-year-olds: basketball. Basketball is hugely underfunded and under-supported. It is a sport played by the majority of black people in this country and it would take just £1 million a year to support it at elite level. Other sports played in posh public schools are hugely supported, so is it not a form of discrimination in sport that a sport played by our urban youth and black people is not supported but those played in the top public schools are?

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Reference

661 c775 

Session

2017-19

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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