Sport
The Isle of Wight was a founder member of the Island Games, and hosted the games in the mid nineties and is due to do so again in 2011.
Two of the most famous and important sailing clubs in the United Kingdom can be found on the island coast, the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, and Brading Haven Yacht Club near Bembridge. the Island plays host to Cowes Week, an annual sailing regatta, and the Admiral's Cup and has on occasions hosted other high profile racing events.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“How long, then, Catiline, while you abuse our patience? How long is this madness of yours to make sport of us?”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“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)
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)