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- Former Arena Football League quarterback Greg Hopkins had 181 touchdowns in his career from 1996–2003
- 181 is the rider number given to Lance Armstrong in 1999 when he won his first of seven Tour de France consecutive victories. After winning his first, Armstrong returned to each subsequent tour with Number 1 (the number traditionally given to the previous years' defending overall winner)
- Former Thoroughbred horse racing jockey Randy Romero set the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans track record with 181 wins in 1975
- 181 athletes from Belarus competed in 28 events at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
- 181 competitors (with 48 cyclists finishing the race) competed in The 1994 Amstel Gold Race in Limburg on April 23, 1994
- At the 2004 Daytona 500, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. passed Tony Stewart on Lap 181 and held him off in the remaining laps to win his first Daytona 500 on February 15, 2004
- Retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey Randy Romero won a track record 181 races at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans
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“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“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)