I’d like to thank the Member for his contribution and I’d also like to recognise the incredible success of our national football team as well this summer. I think between the Paralympics, the Olympics and the Euros, we’ve had probably the best summer of sport for Welsh sportspeople in any of our lifetimes. Perhaps, if only we had an alpine winter climate, we could be expecting a good clutch of medals in two years’ time at the Winter Olympics.

It’s true that, in order to be good at a sport, you have to have motivation, you have to have an opportunity to participate, but you also have to have that support. The Member was absolutely right to identify coaches as being particularly important in gathering such a good number of medals at the Rio games.

In terms of major sporting events, and I’m pleased that the Member recognised the inclusion of the importance of hosting major events in the programme for government published last week, I’ve already been clear in stating our ambition to host a grand tour as well as the Volvo Ocean Race. Of course, next year, we will be hosting the world’s biggest one-day sporting event: the UEFA Champions League final. I challenge any Member to name a country of 3 million people or there or thereabouts that has hosted as many major sporting or cultural events as Wales has in the last decade. We have an incredibly proud record.

But, in terms of the Commonwealth Games, as I challenged the Member from Plaid Cymru, this is a huge commitment that would require between £1.3 billion and £1.5 billion to host. I know that Members have had an opportunity to be briefed by Commonwealth Games with regard to the work that was undertaken to look at the potential of hosting the 2026 games, and I hope that that briefing has allayed some of the concerns that the Member, and other Members, have had. I want to be clear that we wish to see changes to Commonwealth Games rules that would enable us to host in the future. Equally, the reason that I announced a sports facilities review is that we will be able to map out, not just for today but for the future, what facilities are required for the nation, so that we could then also potentially propose a bid in our own right, in the future, for the games. One thing has to be clear: where events take place has to match up with where we build the infrastructure and the facilities, because we cannot run the risk of investing heavily in infrastructure that would subsequently not be used. We wish to invest in the future of sport and physical activity, and I hope that that will then be reflected in more major events being hosted in Wales.

In terms of one more point, in terms of celebrating success—and this reflects on a point that the previous speaker made in terms of local sporting heroes—I think it’s essential next year that, as part of the Year of Legends, community groups and, indeed, local Members do all they can to promote the legends, whether it be in boxing, rugby, or whatever sport it might be—or a culture—within their communities and nationally. This is an opportunity for Wales to brand itself as a place that celebrates success and that promotes great achievement. I think, in the Year of Legends, we can do that in a sporting context as well as in a cultural context too.