This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Journal of Sports Sciences. Grant Abt, Colin Boreham, Gareth Davison, Robin Jackson, Eric Wallace & A. Mark Williams (2021) Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Policy Statement, Journal of Sports Sciences, 39:24, 2847-2849, DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2021.1967608. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.