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:
“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)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)