Per the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), boccia was originally added to the Games in 1984, designed as a strategic ball game for athletes with co-ordination impairments. Game play is ...

Boccia events will take place between Thursday, August 29 and Thursday, September 5 in Paris. Taking its name from the Italian word for “ball,” boccia was originally developed as a competition for ...

Rafael Young and Natasha Critchley. NATASHA: Hello, everyone. RAFAEL: Boccia is a target ball sport. You win by getting more of your balls closer to the jack (the target ball), than your opponent ...

RAFA: We’re here to tell you a little bit about boccia. Boccia is a ball sport where you’re trying to win by scoring more points than the other side, by getting more balls closer to the white ...

I was 10 the first time I tried boccia, a sport in which you have to throw the ball near a target ball. I found it very slow and boring. When I was in secondary school, people started talking ...

Boccia was practised for many years as a leisure activity before ... The sport is played on a flat, smooth surface, where players must throw or roll coloured balls as close as possible to a white ...

The community that plays boccia in Chennai also has a growing wish list. Rajiv says more sports facilities in the city need to be accessible for persons with disabilities. “The balls used to ...