A team has developed Boccia XR, a rehabilitation program using extended reality technology that can be introduced even in environments with limited space. Boccia's appeal and rising popularity ...

"Boccia XR could be effective as a rehabilitation exercise for older adults in terms of both physical and emotional effects, and since it does not require a large court, it is practical for indoor ...

Predeceased by his wife of 63 years, Gloria. Survived by his daughters, Theresa Boccia (Keith Shaw) and Tracey Boccia; grandchildren, Ian and Clara Shaw; brother-in-law, William (Linda ...

Mahmoud Mohamed has been officially named director of the Manama 2025 World Boccia Challenger, set to take place from 19 to 23 April at the Isa bin Rashid Sports Halls in Bahrain. The event will ...

Boccia is a target ball sport that tests both muscle control and accuracy. Played from a seated position, players propel balls towards a white target ball (the jack), aiming to land as close as ...

I was 10 the first time I tried boccia, a sport in which you have to throw the ball near a target ball. I found it very slow and boring. When I was in secondary school, people started talking ...

For a time, he seemed poised for stardom. While in his late 20s, Boccia was recruited to teach at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, alongside the likes of Max Beckmann and Philip Guston.

Jolly ah irruku!” says the boccia player who is wheelchair-bound due to severe physical disabilities. While 36-year-old Karthik Chandrasekhar — a bank employee by day and boccia player when ...

That was why before I met 18-year-old boccia para-athlete Aloysius Gan and his 44-year-old mother Eve Cher, I admit that I was weighed down by gloomy thoughts. Aloysius has cerebral palsy ...

Before Paris 2024, Australia had only ever won two Paralympic boccia medals – both of them bronze. And between Sydney 2000 and Rio 2016, there was not a single Australian representative in the ...

Boccia continued: "We never discussed the second segment and the type of questions that would be asked, in the two hours I was held in the dressing room by the insistent and repeated will to make ...

Ho Yuen-kei said winning boccia gold at the Paris Paralympics on Monday alongside husband, Lee Wing-kit, had been a “dream come true”. The Hongkonger grabbed her city’s second gold of the ...