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The announcement of the candidacy of Boules Sport for the 2024 Olympic Games has cast the spotlight on a sport
and disciplines which are still not well-known. Petanque, Boule Lyonnaise, and Raffa Volo, the Boules Sport disciplines, are represented in 165 countries, via 262 federations and more than 200 million players. 67 countries have already won medals in at least one world championship.

Sport Boules is already present in the largest multi-sport global events: World Games, Mediterranean Games, Asian Indoor Games, S.E.A Games, All Africa Games, Pacific Games, Commonwealth Games, Islands Games (Indian Ocean), Asian Beach Games. This sport now benefits from a new image, highlighting its values of universality, popularity, and communication, and its responses to the criteria for eligibility for the Olympic Games.

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News

Oct 12, 2015

Boules Sport bidding for inclusion at 2024 Olympics

We have the honor and pride to announce a united voice and solidarity of our sport the nomination filing for 2024 Olympic Games. 2024 Sport Balls in the original spirit of the creation of CMSB expresses that our disciplines are one and the same single sport…

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Sportel, sports and new media content the agreement of the leaders of sectors, prepares the 26th edition to be held in Monaco from 12 to 15 October in Monaco. Under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee, the main actors and sports…

Claude AZEMA

President of the CMSB

(Confederation Mondiale Sports Boules)

Our sport, ecompassing the three disciplines of Petanque, Lyonnaise and Raffa, harbours the ambition of submitting its candidacy for the Summer Olympic Games programme. This sport promotes the gathering of men and women regardless of their age, origin, roots, religion or social and professional background.

Highly competitive, it is represented at numerous multi-sport international sporting events. Moreover, it is a sociologically unifying and health-promoting leisure sport that deserves to be given Olympic status. I would like to take this opportunity to announce that we share this ambition with all other sports that have an equal claim to this status.

We must not be competitors, but united in our efforts to achieve a common goal in defending the nobility of all sports. We therefore hope that we will come together to speak with one voice, to work in the same direction, to uphold the universality of all sports.

Frédéric RUIS

President of the FIB

(Federation Internationale de Boules)

It is an immense honor to take over from my illustrious predecessors as President of the FIB.

A function but above all a responsibility that I assume with humility but with determination.

The determination to be able, with my counterparts of pétanque and raffa volo, to bring our disciplines into the unity of the same sport at the Olympic Games.

It will be necessary to give our discipline all the necessary visibility (exposition) and all the conditions (sporting, technical …) to adapt it to a respectful, modern, international practice able to seduce and recruit the younger generations while preserving its soul and its roots.

An exciting challenge that no sport escapes and for which I would put all my energy.

Please believe, dear friends, that we will need the support and action of everyone to enable us to succeed in this challenge.

All together for the success of # boulessport2024.

Mutlu TURKMEN

President of the CBI

(Confederazione Boccistica Internazionale)

It is my great honor to have chance to serve to the world of boules as president of the one of three disciplines.

As you all know, I have been serving to all the three disciplines more than 10 years and was active in all three international federations.

Therefore, I believe that I have the experience and information to serve for the Olympic dream of our loved sport.

We will have the result by uniting three disciplines, joining our forces, and of course respecting each other.
Let’s be united for #boulessport2024

CMSB unifying around the candidacy

The same sport,

Several disciplines,

one single candidacy.

The Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules (CMSB) is the international organization, recognized by the International Olympic Committee, which governs the sport of the boules.

The CMSB – Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules – was created (on 21 December 1985 in Monaco) by three international boules organizations:

> CBI Confederazione Boccistica Internazionale (Raffa bocce)
> FIB Fédération Internationale de Boules (Sport-boules)
> FIPJP Fédération Internationale de Pétanque et Jeu Provençal (Pétanque and Jeu Provençal)

For the purpose of lobbying the Olympic committee to make boules sports part of the summer Olympics. World Bowls (bowls) has also become a member.

Boules and the CMSB were granted consideration for entry to the Olympic Games on 15 October, but have never been granted the status of an official Olympic sport. Nevertheless, every year the CMSB continues to re-present its application.

The CMSB is a sports federation recognized by the following confederations.

International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Association of the IOC Recognised International Sports Federations (ARISF)
SportAccord
International World Games Association (IWGA)

Our disciplines

Petanque is played on every type of ground. The aim of the game is to get your boules as close to the jack as possible. It is possible to shoot or hit the opponent’s boule both directly, without touching the ground or by rolling a boule along the ground to hit the target boule.

The player has to play his game standing with both feet on the ground inside a circle. There also exists a special competition of Precision Shooting.

The bowls used must rigorously follow the protocol set out by the F.I.B, which is included in the Regulations relating to the approval and conformity check of the bowls.
They can be completely hollow or filled. In the latter case the bowls must be filled with a substance or homogeneous mixture of inert substances. They must not contain any liquids, nor any compositions which could become unstable (gas) and could be dangerous.
The filling of the bowls must be statically balanced and that balance must be maintained after the bowls have been used.

The raffa or the roundup is a sport practiced with plastic balls. This sport usually practiced on the clay or carpet is part of Italy. Since the International Federation CBI over 50 countries within it.

This sport very close to of petanque and Lyonnaise Bowls based on concentartion, address and strategy. Like all sports balls its members are fighting the same battle to be recognized Olympic sport.

Discover our disciplines