Less familiar are boccia (pronounced bot-cha) and goalball. Two disciplines unique to the Paralympics that have featured fully in the sporting line-up since 1984. The accessibility of boccia in ...

Today, the boccia contingent competing at the Paralympic Games includes athletes from as many as 75 countries. Paris marks the third consecutive Paralympics that the U.S. has not qualified an athlete ...

PARIS, France — On the fifth day of the Paris Paralympics, medals will be handed out in eight sports on Monday. One of those is Boccia, where players throw or roll leather balls as close as they ...

PARIS (AP) — On the fifth day of the Paris Paralympics, medals will be handed out in eight sports on Monday. One of those is Boccia, where players throw or roll leather balls as close as they ...

Of the 22 Paralympic sports, only two don't have an Olympic equivalent. Boccia is a sport where players throw, kick or roll colored balls as close as possible to a white target ball. The player ...

Many sports at the Paralympics have an Olympic cousin. There are only two without counterparts, one of which is boccia. Boccia has been in the Paralympics since 1984 and has grown in popularity ...

Boccia is one of the most unique events at the Paralympics, but there's a decent chance you've never even heard of it. That may be because it's one of two games specifically designed for ...

blind football to boccia and para-taekwondo to para-triathlon. There have been no changes to the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic programme. Most sports will use the same majestic backdrops: Stade de France ...

The Games will feature 4,400 athletes representing 184 delegations who will compete in 22 different sports, including two—goalball and boccia—which are unique to the Paralympics and do not ...

However, when I met the duo during a boccia training session last month, I saw only two equal partners training together and sharing a singular goal of bettering themselves in the Paralympic sport.