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The Robert Poirier Stadium, or Villejean Athletics Stadium is an indoor athletics stadium, inaugurated on the Villejean Campus at the University of Rennes. It is designed to aid in the development of sport excellence on campus. It depends on the University Rennes 2 for resources. It accommodates 1200 spectators including 734 seated.The stadium originated during the development of the de Ker Lann campus during the 1990s. Several covered multisport stadiums were planned there, but they were abandoned because of a lack of funding. Only with the development of the Campus for Sport Excellence in Bretagne at the beginning of the 2010s did the project begin to be realized.HistoryFirst projectsThe creation of the Ker de Lann campus at Bruz in the suburbs of Rennes by the General Council of Ille-et-Vilaine in the 1990s was to include a multisports complex at a cost of €65 million to be paid for mainly by the Department of Ille-de-Vilaine. This was discussed in 1993 but did not come to pass. The right-wing majority of the right from the general Council supported the development of the campus, while the majority from the left at Rennes (and some of the local academics) were against it, preventing its realization.