When the torch passes through Canada's aboriginal communities it won't shed any light on the poverty that keeps their children from the Olympic dream

In this op ed, first published in the Ottawa Citizen, Laura Robinson comments on the lack of attention paid to the Canadian aboriginal athletes by the Vancouver Olympic Games organizer, VANOC, despite the extensive use of indigenous symbols in promoting the Vancouver Games.

South African sports committee takes drastic measure against rugby team in order to pay attention to racial composition in the transformation process.

Whilst the wider football community in Europe may think of Ukraine mainly in terms of its joint bid with Poland for the European Championships in 2012, Ukrainian Ultras Against Racism now urges the very same football community to speak out against the attempts by Ukrainian neo-nazi groups to increase their influence amongst football fans.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is lawyering up in an attempt to stamp out racism at cricket matches. The Chief Executives’ Committee has decided to ask a lawyer to draft legislation to deal with racist behaviour at matches and then ask its members to lobby their respective governments to get them to adopt the laws.

A group of about 60 Croatian football fans positioned themselves to form a swastika and made nazi salutes during an international friendly between Croatia and Italy last week. The incident has been reported to FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee which has immediately opened proceedings against the Croatian Football Federation.

Television stations should turn off sounds or colour when a racist incident occurs on the stadium during a football match. This was one of the more colourful suggestions made by a member of the European Parliament, Claude Moraes, at a press conference in Strasbourg this week.

UEFA is renewing its efforts to clamp down on the racism that continues to dog the game in Europe. Only last week, the football club AS Roma had to play a home match against Cagliari at a neutral venue without spectators because Roma fans had displayed neo-Nazi banners and anti-semitic slogans at a previous game.