Sports
Several professional sports clubs are active in the city:
- HC Sibir Novosibirsk: ice hockey, Kontinental Hockey League
- FC Sibir Novosibirsk: football, currently competing in Championship of the National League
- Lokomotiv Novosibirsk: Men's volleyball team
- Sibirtelecom Lokomotiv Novosibirsk: Men's basketball team, Russian Basketball Super League
- Dynamo-GUVD Novosibirsk: Women's basketball, Russian Women's Basketball Super League, former national Champions
- HC Sibselmash: bandy, Russian Bandy League, former national champions
Novosibirsk is the home town of several former Olympians, including Alexander Karelin, a twelve-time world Greco-Roman wrestling champion who has been voted the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of the twentieth century by FILA.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“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)
“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)