Sentence examples for of sporting boycotts from inspiring English sources

4 What do you think of sporting boycotts?

For what little it's worth, I am in favour of sporting boycotts only in extremis, and never envy those administrators charged with making such incredibly difficult decisions.

Praising the instrumental importance of the sporting boycott of apartheid South Africa was about the first thing Mandela said as he walked out of prison.

Evidence points towards the Kremlin, and there is tough talk of sanctions and sporting boycotts in response.

In 1981 he made Coventry's Highfield Road the first all-seater stadium in English football, and in 1982 he attempted to lead a tour of English professional players to South Africa, at the time of the sporting boycott against the apartheid regime.

Sporting boycotts, of course, do not guarantee results.

Sporting boycotts of South Africa were already under way by 1968, but the D'Oliveira controversy was the first to make a serious impact on South African cricket.

At that time, South Africa was still living under apartheid rule and was banned from international competition, initially for its refusal to pick a multi-racial team, then as part of the broader sporting boycott of the country.

He likened the protest to boycotts of the Moscow Olympics in 1980 and sporting boycotts targeting apartheid-era South Africa and said "established people" such as David Cameron, John Major and Alan Milburn have all recently spoken out against "entrenched elitism" in the UK.

But how far should the censure go, and how effective can sporting boycotts be, particularly since any punishment of Ukraine could wreak collateral damage in Poland?

"Sporting boycotts" get a paragraph, but no mention of New Zealand.I do find a photo from 1995, when the Springboks defeated the All Blacks in the World Cup final, in Johannesburg.