Britain’s sporting ‘apartheid’ must end, says Sport England’s Chris Grant

• Senior board member calls for investigatory commission
• ‘It’s time for the voices of BAME people to be heard,’ says Grant

Structural racism in British sport is so deep and pervasive that it amounts to a kind of apartheid and needs a South African-style truth and reconciliation commission to tackle it, a Sport England board member has said.

Chris Grant, one of the most senior black administrators in British sport, has written to UK Sport and Sport England urging them to establish a forum where people can talk frankly about historical and present-day issues without criticism or prejudice.

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