In Sports
- Former Arena Football League quarterback Greg Hopkins had 181 touchdowns in his career from 1996–2003
- 181 is the rider number given to Lance Armstrong in 1999 when he won his first of seven Tour de France consecutive victories. After winning his first, Armstrong returned to each subsequent tour with Number 1 (the number traditionally given to the previous years' defending overall winner)
- Former Thoroughbred horse racing jockey Randy Romero set the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans track record with 181 wins in 1975
- 181 athletes from Belarus competed in 28 events at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
- 181 competitors (with 48 cyclists finishing the race) competed in The 1994 Amstel Gold Race in Limburg on April 23, 1994
- At the 2004 Daytona 500, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. passed Tony Stewart on Lap 181 and held him off in the remaining laps to win his first Daytona 500 on February 15, 2004
- Retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey Randy Romero won a track record 181 races at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)