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Standard Athletic Club

In 1922, the historic decision to ensure a permanent home for the Club led to the purchase of the present grounds in Meudon.

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In its early days, the Club was simply a loose association of young Britons who wanted to play sport together in the bois de Boulogne, but gradually grew to a size where playing fields were rented in 1906 at the Val d’Or in Suresnes.

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Cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics

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.