Sport
- February 13 - The last hockey game is played at Maple Leaf Gardens as the team moves to the new Air Canada Centre.
- April 16 - Wayne Gretzky retires from ice hockey.
- July 23–August 8 - The Pan American games are held in Winnipeg.
- November 13 - Lennox Lewis defeats Evander Holyfield to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
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“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.”
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