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5 unusual facts about Cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics


Cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics

The Great Britain team was awarded silver medals and the French team bronze medals, together with miniature statues of the Eiffel Tower.

The French side was officially drawn from all the member clubs of the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques.

Cricket had been scheduled as an event at the first modern Olympics, the 1896 Summer Olympics, being listed in the original programme for the Athens Games.

The Standard Athletic Club had been formed ten years earlier by English workers who had moved to the country to help build the Eiffel Tower.

The British side was a touring club, the Devon and Somerset Wanderers (alias Devon County Wanderers), while the French team, the French Athletic Club Union, comprised mainly British expatriates living in Paris.



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