Sport
The most popular sport in the city is association football. FC Lori Vanadzor founded in 1936 is one of the oldest football clubs in Armenia. The team had represented the city in the domestic competitions from 1991 until 2006, when it was dissolved due to lack of financial resources.
The largest sport venue of the city is the Lori Stadium with a capacity of 5,000 seats, mostly being used for football matches. A renovation plan was scheduled in order to redevelop the stadium to meet the requirements of the UEFA.
Other favourite types of sports for the citizens of Vanadzor include: handball, footsal, volleyball, etc.
Vanadzor has special sport schools for swimming, athletics, weightlifting, chess, gymnastics, table tennis and badminton.
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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.)
“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)
“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)