Sports
- The Netherlands won the bronze medal at the 2002 Field Hockey World Cup in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and the gold medal at the Men's Champions Trophy in Cologne, Germany.
- Feyenoord claims the UEFA Cup for the second time in the history of the club, after a 3-2 win in the final against Borussia Dortmund.
- The Netherlands national football team failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup held in South Korea and Japan.
- The Netherlands won a total of 8 medals at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. They consisted of three golds and five silvers, all won in the area of speed skating.
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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)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“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)