The Saut du Loup stadium, the training ground of the Stade Français, will become the Christophe-Dominici stadium in tribute to the former emblematic winger of the XV of France and the Parisian rugby club, who died suddenly in November 2020 at the age of 48 years old.
The Paris Council voted unanimously on Friday for the deliberation carried out by Pierre Rabadan, sports assistant to the mayor PS Anne Hidalgo and himself a former teammate of Christophe Dominici during the heyday of the Parisian club, between 2001 and 2008. "I sometimes still do not realize" the death of the former star winger of the Blues, said Pierre Rabadan, very moved and very applauded.
Located in the Bois de Boulogne, the Saut du Loup stadium is "a very suitable place" to pay tribute to his "friend" who lived nearby and, owner of a few horses, loved to go to the neighboring Longchamp racecourse. , summarized the old third line, which benefited from the support of the LR town hall of the XVIth arrondissement to rename the enclosure. The land, on the edge of the Seine, with a grandstand and a clubhouse, forms a rural complex which has long been the home of the ACBB, the Boulgne-Billancourt club, before the Stade Français did not. invests the premises in 2013.
Christophe Dominici, who marked the history of rugby by his successes with the XV of France (67 selections, 25 tries, 4 victories in the Tournament including two Grand Slams, finalist of the 1999 World Cup) as at the Stade Français (5 Bouclier de Brennus) died suddenly at the end of November 2020 when he fell from an elevated road on the outskirts of Saint-Cloud Park, arousing immense emotion within French rugby and beyond.