Rugby Union
- 101st Five Nations Championship series is won by England who complete the Grand Slam
- Rugby World Cup is won by hosts South Africa 15–12 over New Zealand in the final with an extra-time drop goal by Joel Stransky
- 26 August – International Rugby Football Board lifts the century-old ban on professionalism
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“And thus they sang their mysterious duo, sang of their nameless hope, their death-in-love, their union unending, lost forever in the embrace of night’s magic kingdom. O sweet night, everlasting night of love! Land of blessedness whose frontiers are infinite!”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
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