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 ...

Many sports at the Paralympics have an Olympic cousin. There are only two without counterparts, one of which is boccia. But that family of sports is one of the earliest ever to be played by mankind, ...

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Tunisian boccia player Achraf Tayahi refuses to show up for his match today against Israel’s Nadav Levi at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. Tayahi also withdrew from yesterday’s match against his Brazilian ...

May 26 - Britain's boccia team crushed Ireland 10-1 as the sport made its debut in a one-off exhibition match here at the BT Paralympic World Cup. Both teams were looking to step up their preparations ...

Yushae Desilva-Andrade secured a 5-2 victory against world number 15 Aurelie Aubert from France in her first boccia match in Montreal. A spokesperson said, “Yushae won her 1st match today 5-2 against ...

“Today’s match highlights the extent all delivery partners involved in Tokyo 2020 are going to in order to put on the best Paralympic Games ever." International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President ...

“I'm here to play a boccia match. I like to score points." Korea can secure a clean sweep of the medals in the BC3 category of the Boccia competition after the lineups for the finals were decided on ...

David Smith first tried the sport of boccia aged just six. It was a slow start, as he admitted that for five years he did not win an end (a boccia match is made up of four of them) David Smith OBE has ...

LONDONThailand lived up to their reputation as the ones to watch in Boccia yesterday as they eased into the gold medal match in the mixed team BC1-2 class. The Thais were assured of at least silver.

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Sir Philip Craven met with Tokyo’s Governor Koike on Thursday (23 February) and the two went head-to-head in a boccia match in front of the country’s ...