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Travel Home > Directory > Destinations > Europe > France > Paris > Paris Sport
Paris along with its arts and culture is a world sporting city. The sports range from football, rugby union, tennis, cycling, to horse racing and show jumping. The most popular sport is football in large part due to the success of the French international football team who won the 1998 World Cup and followed this up with the 2000 European Championships. These successes brought fame to many french footballers, in particular Zinedine Zidane. Another team sport which has always been popular in Paris is rugby union which although normally identified as being a southwest France sport has recently seen a resurgence in the capital with the success of the local Stade Francais CASG team. During May and June Paris hosts the French Open Tennis tournament at the Stade Roland Garros in the Bois de Bologne. The following month tens of thousands of cycling fans line the Champs-Elysees to see the last stage of the Tour de France. In october the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe horse race is run at Longchamp Racecourse, Paris and is one of the richest races in Europe.
Situated in the midst of an urban centre just a brisk walk away from Montmartre, the Porte de la Chapelle is a great choice. Extremely modern rooms with incredible state of the art furniture will leave you feeling comfortable and relaxed. The hotel is a popular stay for visiting rugby fans coming to watch a 6 nations game at the nearby Stade de France. The hotel is less than 1.5 km from the stadium.
The 2007 Rugby World Cup was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. The final between England and South Africa on 20 October 2007, was won by South Africa with 15 points to 6, their second World Cup title.
The Stade de France is a football and rugby union stadium in Saint-Denis, France, an inner suburb of Paris. It has a capacity of around 80,000. The stadium is currently used for the French rugby union team during the Six Nations and other internationals. The French football team also use the stadium for almost every friendly games, and it was there where they defeated Brazil 3-0 in the 1998 FIFA World Cup final.
The Tour de France is the world's best-known cycling race, a 22-day, 20-stage road race that is usually run over more than 3000km. It is a circuit of most areas around France and, sometimes, neighbouring countries. The race is broken into stages from one town to another, each of which is an individual race. Since 1975, the finish of the Tour has been on the Champs-Élysées in Paris , the only time the city's symbolic avenue is closed other than for the processions of Bastille Day, and for the Paris Marathon.
Purchase tickets for top sporting events in Paris at venues such as Stade de France, Parc des Princes, and Hippodrome de Longchamp.
The Parc des Princes (translation: Princes' Park) is a 48,712-seat stadium in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is the home of football team Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and was the national stadium of France until the Stade de France was built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is a Group 1 flat race for three-year-old and above thoroughbred horses (excluding geldings). It is run over a distance of 2,400 metres (approximately 1 mile 4 furlongs) raced on turf at Longchamp Racecourse, Paris, France on the first Sunday in October. Often called "The Arc", it is one of the French racing season's four Classic races and is the major end-of-season middle-distance challenge race in Europe.
