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 | | The Principality, the crossroads of the world of sport with its world-renowned events - the Monte Carlo Rally, the Grand Prix, the International Tennis matches and so on - is also a think-tank for the official bodies which govern sports... |
 | | Towards the end of the nineteenth century there was already in existence in the Principality a "Regatta Committee" which was replaced in 1888, on the initiative of a group of a dozen Monégasques, by a sports association established to promote, encourage and develop water-borne sports such as sailing and rowing. |
 | | Similarly, other sports including golf (with the opening in 1910 of the first course on the slopes of Mont Agel), tennis, fencing, shooting, boxing, football and athletics all took wing and on the eve of the 1914-1918 war, the sporting activities of the Principality were already exemplary and were to continue : |
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