The COVID-19 pandemic affected sport programming by restricting in-person activities. Concurrently, global outcry for racial justice for Black and racialized communities promoted calls to action to assess equitable practices in sport, including sport for development (SFD). This study critically examined SFD “return to play” programming to include perspectives from racialized persons’ lived experiences. We present findings based on data collected from Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Foundation’s Change the Game campaign, which explored questions of sport inequity to “build back better.” Outcomes further SFD discourses challenging (potentially) harmful structures affecting participants, including underreported effects of racialization. The study used both quantitative and qualitative analyses of survey data on youth experiences, enablers, and barriers in sport and analyzed these results within an antiracist, antioppressive, and decolonial conceptual framework.

COVID-19 大流行通过限制现场活动影响了体育节目。与此同时，全球对黑人和种族化社区的种族正义的强烈抗议促使呼吁采取行动评估体育中的公平做法，包括体育促进发展 (SFD)。这项研究批判性地检查了 SFD“重返游戏”节目，以包括来自种族化人群生活经历的观点。我们根据从枫叶体育和娱乐基金会的改变游戏活动中收集的数据提出调查结果，该活动探讨了体育不平等问题以“重建得更好”。SFD 的结果进一步挑战了影响参与者的（潜在的）有害结构，包括种族化的低估影响。该研究对青年经历、促成因素、