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:
“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)
“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)
“Americans living in Latin American countries are often more snobbish than the Latins themselves. The typical American has quite a bit of money by Latin American standards, and he rarely sees a countryman who doesn’t. An American businessman who would think nothing of being seen in a sport shirt on the streets of his home town will be shocked and offended at a suggestion that he appear in Rio de Janeiro, for instance, in anything but a coat and tie.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)