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===Sport=== Bo'ness is home to the football club [[Bo'ness United F.C.|Bo'ness United]], and also to Bo'ness United Ladies and Bo'ness United Under 16s. A large fire damaged Bo'ness United's football ground in June 2019.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-48526545|title= Bo'ness football ground fire was 'suspicious' |date= 5 June 2019 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=26 April 2021}}</ref> It was the home to [[Bo'ness F.C.]] until 1932. Bo'ness Academy has a rugby team. Bo'ness RFC has had its first ever rugby club established in September 2011. Bo'ness Cycling Club was reformed in 2010 as Velo Sport Bo'ness. Jim Smellie was 11 times Scottish Cycling Champion, and some of the trophies collected over the years can be viewed at [[Kinneil House|Kinneil House Museum]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.s1boness.com/memories/boness-cycling-legend.html |title=Bo'ness Cycling Legend |work=s1 Bo'ness |last=Smillie |first=Derek |access-date=4 March 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110715220747/http://www.s1boness.com/memories/boness-cycling-legend.html |archive-date=15 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Bo'ness has also played an important role in British motorsport. [[Hillclimbing in the British Isles|Hillclimb events]], including the first ever round of the [[British Hill Climb Championship]] and several thereafter,<ref>{{cite web |url= https://hillclimb.uk/venue/boness/ |title=Bo'ness Statistics |publisher=Hill Climb |access-date=26 April 2021}}</ref> were held on a [[Bo'ness Hill Climb|course on the Kinneil estate]] most years from 1932 until 1966. Since 2008, an annual Revival event for classic road-going and competition cars has been held on approximately the same course. [[Bo'ness Hill Climb]] is a [[Hillclimbing in the British Isles|hillclimbing]] course on the Kinneil Estate (site of the historic [[Kinneil House]]).<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.bonessrevival.co.uk/ |title=Home Page |publisher=Bo'ness Revival |access-date=26 April 2021}}</ref>
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