Brazil in action during a boccia training session ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. - Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images BC3 competitors have “ very severe locomotor dysfunction in all four ...

The one that trains will win and you will lose,” he said laughing. The training has paid off in terms of his recent podium performances this season, taking silver at the 2014 Boccia World Open, and ...

A NEW Boccia Club in Hambleton has received some top-level training following a visit by a Paralympic athlete. Five times Paralympian Stephen Miller visited Hambleton Boccia Club in Northallerton ...

BIRMINGHAM, AL, UNITED STATES, July 10, 2025 / EINPresswire.com / -- The Boccia International Sports Federation (BISFed) today announced Birmingham, Alabama has been chosen as the host city for ...

With her training facility closed, Reilly-Boccia is also adapting to the times, giving lessons and advice to softball players across the country virtually on video platforms like Zoom and FaceTime.

"I never missed a competition that happened in CT [Paralympic Training Center]," said Santos, who won gold at London 2012 and silver at Tokyo 2020. "Since it opened in 2016, I've never lost it here.

Through boccia, I've also have the good fortune of experiencing the highs of winning and the heartbreaks of losing together with my team.” Taha admitted one of those lows was not making it to Tokyo ...

Thirteen course participants have since gone on to deliver boccia training to more than 100 adults and children in schools and centres in Mumbai, Pune, Haryana, Punjab and Navi Mumbai.

Three-time Northern Ireland Paralympian Claire Taggart has announced her retirement from boccia. The Larne native became the first athlete from Northern Ireland to compete at boccia in the Paralympic ...

Stratford District Council laid on a boccia training day, which demonstrated the art of the game based on French boules and can be played by both able-bodied and disabled people.

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. “The jobs we have now come from the confidence we got from playing boccia,” said Harrison, a 42-year-old job coach at Greenleaf Job Training Services.