Sports
- Josy Barthel (1927–1992), athlete, Olympic gold in 1952
- François Faber (1887–1915), cyclist
- Nicolas Frantz (1899–1985), cyclist
- Charly Gaul (1932–2005), cyclist
- Marc Girardelli (born 1963), skier
- John Grün (1868–1912), strongman
- Kim Kirchen (born 1978), cyclist
- Andy Schleck (born 1985), cyclist
- Fränk Schleck (born 1980), cyclist
- Michel Théato (1878–1919), runner
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“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)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)