Taking into consideration the particular situation of New Caledonia on the health, political and economic plans, the FIPJP Executive Committee decided, during its meeting on Saturday March 6th, not to organize the World Championships in mixed doubles, singles and doubles for Men and Women in 2022. Already initially planned for 2021 they had been postponed by one year in order to avoid too many world events this year since we will already have the World Championships in triplets of the Men in July in Lausanne - postponed from 2020 - as well as the World Championships for Women and Youth in Ayutthaya in Thailand in December...

The 10th national annuals of the Boules & Petanque Association of Iran (BPAI) was organized successfully in a limited way of mixed doubles with participation of 8 invited teams called “Tournament of 8 Bests” during the period of Feb 4-5, 2021 at the center of BPAI talent identification and development where is known as the center for developing Petanque in the West and Central Asia Zone. It comes to the end of the twelfth month of our changed lifestyle with all its impacts on the world of sport and the BPAI has started to gather its players in-person with limited number among bests adapted to the Covid-19 protocols in order to get rid of the current restrictions and motivated all for moving toward a better future...

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...