Sport
- February 7 - Lennox Lewis becomes heavyweight boxing champion.
- September 25 - Chris Jericho is inducted into the Canadian Wrestling Hall of Fame.
- October 26 - Formula One: Jacques Villeneuve becomes the first Canadian to become World Drivers Champion.
- November 16 - The Toronto Argonauts win the Grey Cup.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“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)
“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)