Sports
Several professional sports clubs are active in the city:
- HC Sibir Novosibirsk: ice hockey, Kontinental Hockey League
- FC Sibir Novosibirsk: football, currently competing in Championship of the National League
- Lokomotiv Novosibirsk: Men's volleyball team
- Sibirtelecom Lokomotiv Novosibirsk: Men's basketball team, Russian Basketball Super League
- Dynamo-GUVD Novosibirsk: Women's basketball, Russian Women's Basketball Super League, former national Champions
- HC Sibselmash: bandy, Russian Bandy League, former national champions
Novosibirsk is the home town of several former Olympians, including Alexander Karelin, a twelve-time world Greco-Roman wrestling champion who has been voted the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of the twentieth century by FILA.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)