Sport
- Alexander Alekhine - Chess World Champion, who moved from Communistic Russia to France,
- Ossip Bernstein - Chess grandmaster, who escape from Communistic Ukraine to France,
- Efim Bogoljubow - Chess grandmaster, who moved from the Soviet Union to Germany,
- Fedor Bohatirchuk - Chess grandmaster, who moved from Ukraine to Canada.
- Joel Casamayor - Former Lightweight Champion in Boxing, fled from Cuba to U.S.
- Mebrahtom Keflezighi - Olympic marathon silver medallist, Eritrean refugee to U.S. (via Italy)
- Lomana Tresor LuaLua - A striker/winger who plays for Blackpool, he migrated from Kinshansa, DR Congo to the U.K
- Fabrice Muamba - Congolese refugee in the United Kingdom, became a football player for Bolton.
- Ashot Nadanian - Chess player, who moved from Azerbaijan to Armenia
- Mario Stanic - Former footballer with Chelsea. He used to play for Sarajevo F.C. who were targeted during the Bosnian War
- Christopher Wreh - Former Arsenal footballer and Liberian refugee
- Luol Deng - Chicago Bulls Basketball Player and Nba Allstar Moved from Sudan to Great Britain
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when ones appetite is not too keen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“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 (18761947)