Racing Club of France

|- | colspan=" 2" style=" text-align: center; padding: 0.5em; " bgcolor=" white" | |- | founded Club the | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| April 20th 1882 |- | preceding Name | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Racing Club (1882 - 1885) |- | Colors | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Sky and white |- | principal Stages | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Stage Yves-of-Manor, Doves
Cross-Catelan, Paris |- | Seat | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| 5 rue Eblé, 75007 Paris |} Racing club of France is a founded Parisian general sports club the April 20th 1882 under the name of “Racing Club”. It is in the beginning a club of athletics, imagined by pupils of the Lycée Condorcet, who involved themselves with the race on foot, for want of anything better, under the Holy hall of the Station Lazare, and it is there that officially the club was founded.

Racing Club changes name to adopt that of Racing club of France (RCF) the November 21st 1885. The RCF obtains the concession by the Municipal council of Paris of a large plain within the Bois de Boulogne: the Park with the Hinds. A grass track of a little less than 500 meters, a country cottage being used as cloakroom and the center of the Catelan Cross were born on February 26th, 1886, accommodating a thousand of members already. This place will become one of the most crested appointments of Paris.

The club with the colors Sky and White was directed by famous presidents, this very honorary and required title being (the first was Ferdinand de Lesseps), but especially by General secretaries, in charge of the sporting policy. Most famous of the general secretaries of the RCF was Georges de Saint Clear (1884), founder in company of Pierre de Coubertin of the USFSA (Union of the athletic French companies of sports). He wrote in 1887 “the athletic sports and the exercises of outdoor”. He was one of the theorists of the sporting movement in France. Meeting of the RCF and Stage French, were born the first Union, then Fédération of Athletics in 1887.

The RCF was the first European club in term of manpower and prize list: more than 20.000 active members, 93 Olympic medals, 53 championships of the world, 30 cuts of Europe, 115 championships of Europe and more than 1000 championships of France.

In 2006 Racing Club of France saw a considerable turning related to the loss of the concession of the Catelan Cross, granted since 120 years by the Town hall of Paris, against a royalty symbolic system, in exchange of an ambitious sporting policy. The loss of this center which generated the only surpluses of receipts of the club caused to it quasi bankruptcy of the RCF which has to be folded up on its site of Versailles, the golf of Boulie. Twelve of the sporting sections were taken again by the new dealer, the Group Lagardere (athletics, badminton, tennis shoe ball, modern decathlon, fencing, judo, modern swimming, pentahlon, ski, tennis, shooting, triathlon volleyball ball). The sections football, golf, field hockey, Rugby remain with Racing Club of France, football and Rugby having to be shown under this name by privately held companies to survive.

Sections

The RCF counted until in 2006 17 sporting sections.

Old sections:

  • the section existing Hockey until 1951, gained 2 titles of champion of France.

External bonds

  • Official site of the club

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