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French victory at La Mayonnaise

Petanque-festival in Wrocław

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The ultimate francophile boule-set

Rules regarding a broken boule?

P�tanque - The greatest game you never heard of!

Philippe Quintais, Jean-Luc Robert and Herg� Concedieu won the triples competition at La Mayonnaise in Stockholm today,
13-0, over �ke Borgstr�m, Mats Lind and Staffan Lund. The French team's victory was rapidly and effortlessly won with the audience being treated to an exhibition of petanque on the highest level. With the exception of one match against three members of the Swedish Women's National team, they encountered little difficulty on their way to this title.

Philippe Quintais and the Swedish player Harko Verhagen won the doubles competition, 13-0, over Anders Strandberg and Rickard Nilsson. The winning team relinquished a total of only four points in all the six games in the doubles event.

Philippe Quintais had defeated Herg� Concedieu for the singles title the previous day.

Klub Sportowy �Petanka� Wrocław and Polska Federacja Petanque would like to invite you to Petanque Festival, which is taking place on 19th and 20th of May 2012 in Wrocław. On Saturday 19.05.2012 there is Centrope Cup tournament � triples and on Sunday 20.05.2012 there is Open Championship of Wrocław � doubles.

Bent Toe from Sweden sent us a few photos of boule in action

If you area true francophile you will need this. OBUT has in their wisdom created a "Tour de France" Boule set. Mais Oui!

On Sunday 19 February 2012, I shot a boule and it made a metallic ping and broke perfectly in half when my bloues hit it. It seems that there had been a crack in the boules that had allowed some water to corrode the weakness. Is is a JB competition boule.

Byron Putman discovered petanque some two years ago and fell in love, head over heels. Then decided to analyze every angle of the game, including its development in the USA. He started clubs in Palm Springs, CA and in Lake Oswego, OR. And wrote a book about it, aptly named "P�tanque - The greatest game you never heard of!"

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