Boccia is one of the most unique events at the ... being goalball), meaning you won't ever see it re-created in the Olympic arena. Per the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), boccia was ...

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 ...

The complete boccia schedule, including TV listings, is also available on the NBCOlympics.com schedule page. All live streams are also available to watch on mobile, tablet and connected TV devices via ...

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 being introduced at the New York 1984 Paralympics as a competitive sport. It is one of only two Paralympic sports that do not have an ...

Bangladesh and Germany captured boccia gold medals on the fourth day of competition at the Special Olympics World Games in Berlin. The President of the Boccia International Sports Federation ...

Once the Olympics and Paralympics were over, some French sportsmen and women found it difficult to move on from the event, whether they suffered a setback or, on the contrary, been crowned with ...

The Special Olympics: Boccia The Special Olympics: Boccia Available for over a year Jenny Eells meets the Sheffield brothers who'll be playing Boccia at the Special Olympics.

MARTIN: Boccia is the fastest-growing disability sport in the world and it’s now played in more than fifty countries, and it's a sport we're pretty good at. Taggart has represented Great Britain ...

Bangladesh and Germany captured boccia gold medals on the fourth day of competition at the Special Olympics World Games in Berlin. The President of the Boccia International Sports Federation ...