The Stade Jules Ladoumègue is marked by a long, distinctive building stretching two hundred sixty meters, featuring a facade of motorized panels that shift to manage sunlight and dampen noise from the nearby Périphérique ring road. This sports complex at Porte de Pantin occupies land that once held Paris’s defensive fortifications. It is named for the middle-distance runner Jules Ladoumègue, a national hero in the nineteen thirties who held multiple world records before his professional career ended abruptly following a controversial ban.
Stade Jules Ladoumègue
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