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Racism in Sport is a problem which is manifest around the world. It has led to a wide range of controversial incidents which have been reported in the media.

There have been many efforts to eradicate racism from sport, including Football Against Racism in Europe, Show Racism The Red Card, Rasismul strică fotbalul in Romania and the Australian Football League's racial vilification code. Not all of them have been successful.

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2007

• The Herald Sun launches a special investigation into racism in junior Aussie Rules, revealing several controversial incidents.^[1]
• Anthony Mundine made publicity by claiming that New South Wales as racist state in terms of the sport of rugby league and that it is one of the reasons he quit the sport to take up boxing.^[2]
• 17 October - Indian crowds of up to 40,000 people at a cricket match in Vadodara and Nagpur threw racist taunts at Andrew Symonds resulting in official complaints to the International Cricket Council.^[3]

26th December: Harbhajan allegedly called Symonds a monkey and India went from a strong lead to a loss. Harbhajan actually was taunted by Symonds and said a swear word in hindi.[reference required]

2008

• Broadcaster Kelly Tilghman is suspended from The Golf Channel after joking about Tiger Woods being "lynched in a back alley" during final round coverage of the Mercedes-Benz Championship.

See also

• Play the white man

References

External links

• Racism in Sports TheSportsCampus.com