The world of bowls, all disciplines combined, is in mourning: it has just lost Christian Lacoste, a prominent personality in our sport, taken away by a cancer against which he fought with all the willpower whom we all know how strong it was. Coming from the world of Lyonnaise where he was successively National Coach then National Technical Director, he succeeded Alphonse Lagier-Bruno at the head of the FIB in 2009. He held this position in an exemplary voluntary manner until the end of his second mandate in 2017, leaving it because he felt that his health no longer allowed him to occupy it with all the energy he would have to devote to it...
The magazine partner of the FIPJP, Planète Boules, now devotes four pages to our international news that we produce in collaboration with Claude Raluy, the CIEP President. They appear in french in the full magazine, but in some copies of the latter they are also in english. You can consult these four pages on our site, in french and in english respectively...
In Thailand, pétanque is an institution. In fact, it is the second most titled nation after France. A France 2 team went there to understand this craze. Just like in Marseille, pétanque in Bangkok is also a national sport. "I love pétanque, I've been playing it since I was five years old, at school, in temples, everywhere", confides a young woman on the France 2 microphone. In the land of smiles, pétanque is sacred. It is the queen mother herself who imported it from a stay on the French Riviera in the 50s. Today, the kingdom counts more than two million amateurs, and even little prodigies spotted on television...
Discover the new Official Rules for the Sport of Petanque adopted by the Executive Committee of the F.I.P.J.P, applicable from January 1st, 2021 on all the territories of the national federations, members of the Fédération Internationale de Pétanque & Jeu Provençal (F.I.P.J.P)...
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Dear Friends of Sport - You all have received the programme of the UTS World Virtual Youth Festival. The event will include 5 days of competitions, workshops and panels, a spectacular opening and closing ceremony. So please support the youth of the world by joining the event. The opening will be aired on the 20th November 7.00 PM Thai time on the Olympic Channel. The competition will be aired daily on the UTS website and Facebook. Please support the many panels as all of them are outstanding speakers. We would like to ask you to advertise the event and agenda on your social media. Invite all your members and friends to join all the activities during these 5 days. We will send you daily updates. We would like to thank you for your ongoing support in this important initiative...
We want to share with you the WPOC documentary video in the link below. We hope you will enjoy it. Sharing this video with the National Federations affiliated to the FIPJP could be a useful way to motivate them to be active during the pandemic..