New Boccia Club in Bolton

Richard_Scope

CP Networker, Carla is starting a new Boccia club in her home town of BOLTON. If you, or anyone you may know, would be interested in going along on a Friday afternoon to play or even to try the game - please click the link and join her new Facebook group, Bolton Boccia

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Why is this game promoted among disabled people around the world?

Jimm_Scope

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/911939#Comment_911939

It is a sport that was specifically designed for people who have severely affected motor skills. So that is in part why it's promoted among disability groups. It doesn't mean you need to be disabled to play it of course, just it's designed for it to be very accessible to people who have a disability that affects their motor function/skills that can make most sports very difficult to take part in. 🙂

egister

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/911941#Comment_911941

Yes, but this does not explain the synchronism of the propaganda of this sport in different countries of the world.

Jimm_Scope

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/912289#Comment_912289

It's a major sport in the Paralympics, being one of two that is unique to the Paralympics and isn't a direct adaptation from a sport in the Olympics….. and the Paralympics just happened.

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Boccia has been contested at the Summer Paralympics since the 1984 Games in New York City and Stoke Mandeville.