ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book introduces the idea of the problematics used to prioritise some questions and suppress others. The relationship between sport and social inequality exists in at least three forms: inequality of condition, inequality of opportunity and inequality of capability. Global sport does not offer a single coherent challenge, but many different challenges. The challenge to global sport is a challenge about governance and democracy in and through sport. Sport itself can contribute as a resource of hope, but it cannot do this on its own. Other resources are needed if sport is to win further freedoms through sport for change or sporting choices, if opportunities are to be increased, and if alternative visions of the world we live in are to be realised.