The Great Britain team was awarded silver medals and the French team bronze medals, together with miniature statues of the Eiffel Tower.
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The French side was officially drawn from all the member clubs of the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques.
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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.
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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.
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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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