Palais des Sports de Dijon (also known as Palais des Sports Jean-Michel Geoffroy) is an indoor sporting arena that is located in

Dijon Dijon (, , ) (dated) * it, Digione * la, Diviō or * lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920. The earlies ...

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. The arena has a

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of 5,000 for

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games.

History

The arena was one of the venues of the 1999 FIBA EuroBasket. It has also been used as the home venue of the Jeanne d'Arc Dijon Bourgogne professional

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