Sport
- Athletics - Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club wins the British Athletics League Championship for the second time.
- Cycling - The Welsh Cycling Union is formed.
- Horse racing - Geoff Lewis wins both the Epsom Oaks and the 1,000 Guineas on "Mysterious".
- Rugby union - Japan plays its first rugby match in Europe at Penygraig in the Rhondda Valley.
- Snooker - Ray Reardon is World Professional Champion for the second time.
- BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year - Berwyn Price
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o’er the green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)