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Marguerite Russell, a barrister at Garden Court Chambers, states: “Ms Rippington does not seek to use this claim to change the 2012 Olympic sports programme.” “She wants the organisers of these Olympics, who are in the UK bound by equalities rules, to conduct an in-depth examination of the gender bias in the canoeing programme, and, she hopes, in the Olympic sports programme in general. The Canadian courts have already decided that a national Organising Committee of the Olympic Games is carrying out a Governmental function when it stages the Olympics.

“Ms Rippington just wants LOCOG to get on with conducting the equality impact assessment, as it is obliged to do, so that London’s Olympic legacy includes a positive contribution to the on-going efforts to achieve equality of opportunity in the Olympic movement and in sport generally.”