Sport
Three association football teams based in Basse-Terre compete in the Guadeloupe Division d'Honneur, the country's top division. These teams are Racing Club de Basse-Terre, La Gauloise de Basse-Terre and Etoile du Carmel. Racing Club have won three league titles, most recently in 2004. Another Basse-Terre-based club, Cygne Noir, won the league in 1963, but they no longer compete in the top-flight.
Sports stadiums in the capital include Stade St. Claude, a stadium with a capacity of 3,000 that is currently used for association football by the Guadeloupe football team and clubs Racing Club de Basse-Terre and La Gauloise de Basse-Terre as well as being a multi-use stadium.
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“The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one’s appetite is not too keen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)
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The End”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)