Sport: Integrity

Lord Cormack Excerpts

Tuesday 10th May 2016 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Neville-Rolfe]

In Britain, we care a huge amount about corruption in sport and cleaning things up, and that is in the mouths of all the people who represent us around the world. That is one of the reasons the Prime Minister has put this important issue on his agenda this week. It is fair to say that we work day and night through our representative bodies to try to clean up sport, but there is always more to do. Obviously, the unanimous vote to suspend Russian athletes from all competition was a very good move.

[Lord Cormack (Con)]

Could not all those involved in sport draw some inspiration from the Invictus Games this week?

[Baroness Neville-Rolfe]

They could indeed draw great inspiration from the Invictus Games and from the Olympics and Paralympics. Of course, the fact that Prince Harry is involved makes us all delighted.