Sport
The Stade Chaban-Delmas is the largest stadium. It can host 35000 spectators. There are two major sport teams in Bordeaux:
- Girondins de Bordeaux is the football team. It is part of the Ligue 1 in the French football championship.
- Union Bordeaux Bègles is the rugby team. It is part of the Top 14 in the Ligue Nationale de Rugby.
- Bordeaux is the home of one of the strongest cricket teams in France and are the current champions of the South West League.
There is a 250 m (820 ft) wooden velodrome, Vélodrome du Lac, in Bordeaux which hosts international cycling competition in the form of UCI Track Cycling World Cup events.
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“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
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