What role can the media play in promoting diversity in European sport?
The media is a little bit like sport itself, in the sense that is not the source and cause of violence and racism, but it reflects what is happening in society. However, the way the media reports on misbehaviour can certainly be awareness-raising. I think it is important that a journalist, when informing about misbehaviour, should also signal condemnation. 7. What challenges and obstacles lie ahead in the fight against racism and discrimination in European sport? Sport will keep being poisoned by racist and violent behaviour whilst these repugnant phenomena exist in society itself. What sport can do is to raise awareness and treat these negative phenomena within its own world, with its own possibilities. I think sport is not doing bad at all. We should keep on combating and I hope that from now on, thanks to the cooperation between the governments and the sport federations in the EPAS, new promising solutions will be found to make things better on sport fields and in sport clubs.
