Racing 92 Club was established in 1882 as an athletics club, one of the first in France.
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Racing 92 Club was established in 1882 as an athletics club, one of the first in France.
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Racing 92 were awarded the Bouclier de Brennus, which is still awarded to the winners of the French championship today.
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Racing 92 contested the 1900 season final against the Stade Bordelais club, as provincial clubs had been allowed to compete in 1899.
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The Racing 92 Club won the competition in 1918, defeating FC Grenoble 22 points to 9.
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That season the Racing 92 Club made their first final since 1912, though they lost 8 to 3 to Stadoceste Tarbais, a club from the Pyrenees.
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Three seasons later the Racing 92 Club defeated Agen 22 to 12 in Paris, capturing their first title since the 1959 season.
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Racing 92's president is Jacky Lorenzetti, who heads a giant real estate company called Foncia.
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Racing 92 Club became the epitome of the exclusive athletics club, located in the heart of the Bois de Boulogne in the affluent western district of Paris.
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Racing 92 Club has always defended the amateur spirit of the game and of sports in general.
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Racing 92 then spent several years in the second division, but retained plenty of ambition.
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The following year saw Racing 92's ambitions realised with a romp to the Pro D2 crown, clinching promotion with four rounds to spare.
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Racing 92 made headlines in December 2014, announcing that it had signed All Blacks fly-half Dan Carter, the all-time leading points scorer in international rugby, to a three-year deal effective after the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
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Still more recently, Racing 92 became the first Top 14 side to establish a satellite club in the United States, signing a partnership agreement in 2016 with Austin Huns, a club from Austin, Texas that planned to turn fully professional.
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