Sport
- Albert Azaryan, gymnast, Olympic champion, 1st person to do the Iron Cross, Crucifix, or Azarian Cross
- Arsen Galstyan, judoka, Olympic champion
- Garry Kasparov (Kasparyan), chess player World champion
- Tigran Petrosian, chess player World champion
- Nikita Simonian, footballer, VP of Russian Football Union
- Yurik Vardanian, weightlifter, Olympic champion, several world records
- Vladimir Yengibaryan, boxer, Olympic champion
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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)
“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)