The 43rd WC will be held in Thailand!
And here's the brand new website of the Pattaya Championships.
Some pages are still under construction, but for those of us that are used to French websites, this one looks extremely good! You actually risk finding information before your PC crashes! This is not something the petanque community is used to, the usual French web-solution is to make an insane flash/java based solution in french only. That usually crashes your PC before you can understand anything.
So this is very good indeed!
pattaya-petanque2007.com
There are 26,000 registered players Thailand, so after France and Spain they are the biggest petanque-playing nation in the world!
This is probably due to HRH Princess Srinagarindra, who popularized the game in Thailand.
We just got word of a new petanque-game, for all of those of you with a PC. It's called "petank party", and looks quite unique...
We have integrated petanque.org with yet another newcomer to the web, this time it is youtube. So please give us your ideas!
Here are some pics from the 2nd Johannesburg Open played at the Boulesdust piste at the Zoo Lake Sports Club in Johannesburg (see Google Pic). There were 10 doublets who played in 2 round robin leagues. The top 2 teams then played in the semi-finals. The final was won by Paul and Howie who beat Gerald and Bridget in a tense final that finished well after 8pm.
We have received word that we have supplied quite a lot of images to a story by the municipal Library in Lyon, France. And the story is worth a read!
Many years ago there was no way of getting your pictures online unless you knew someone with a homepage. Or you mailed them to petanque.org, and we'd put it on the web for you. But nowadays nobody does this thing anymore, there are thousands of ways to get your images online, and our pictures-section is about as dry as the sahara. So we have had to make some changes
Crazy petanque game soon availableYoutube joins petanque.orgLyon library - story on Boule lyonnaisePetanque.org integrates with flickrPetanque.org is 10 years old! Illegal Petanque ExposedA Petanque calendar for 2008Hot club petanqe and Le mondial la marseillaise a petanque 2007Big balls of steel and a tiny wooden onePeterhof Maier cup - play a petanque tournament in Russia!
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