2001 in Canada - Sport

Sport

  • January 21 - Chris Jericho wins Intercontinental Championship from Chris Benoit.
  • January 31 - George N. Gillett Jr. buys 80% of the Montreal Canadiens and 100% of the Molson Centre in Montreal for US$275 million.
  • February 3 - Catriona LeMay Doan wins gold in the 500 m and 1000 m speed skating races in Heerenveen, Netherlands.
  • May 21 - Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit win World Wrestling Federation (WWF) Tag Team Championship.
  • December 9 - Chris Jericho becomes first to unify World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) Championships hence becoming first undisputed Champion.

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Famous quotes containing the word sport:

    Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.

    George Orwell (1903–1950)

    How long, then, Catiline, while you abuse our patience? How long is this madness of yours to make sport of us?
    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)