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...