Talk:Boccia

Name from Latin - bottia
I am not an expert in Latin. However, I speak Italian and boccia in Italian means (1) a round shaped vessel or bottle (bowl) and (2) a round shaped sphere/ball to play bocce (Italian pl. for boccia) and (3) in a funny way it means head (e.g. my bowl is aching).

The word for ball in Italian is palla and latin word for ball is pila. Digging into this issue I could not find any reference to bottia. All online Latin dictionaries do not have this word in database.

However I found a reference to the word bottia meaning boss in Latin: The Roman influence in bocce is preserved in the game’s name; bocce derives from the Vulgate Latin bottia, meaning boss.

Ref: http://www.bocce.org/history.html

This needs to be updated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkljun (talk • contribs) 14:42, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Olymipics
In regards to the first section of this article, stating that Boccia is not a olympic sport, see http://en.paralympic.beijing2008.cn/index.shtml which includes a schedule of the paralympics.

Copied straight from this page on the 9th of November (2008):

11:10 Athletics   Women's 100m - T46 Round 1 Heat 1    11:15  Boccia   Mixed Individual -BC2 Bronze Medal Match    11:15  Boccia   Mixed Individual -BC1 Bronze Medal Match

Yes, please do change asap. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.9.229.244 (talk) 02:36, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Merger with Bocce
Someone has proposed merging this article into Bocce - although they have not posted any justification for that proposal either here or on Talk:Bocce. I don't think a merge is justified. Boccia is a distinct sport for athletes with a disability; while it is related to Bocce no more the same game than are pétanque or bowls. Eron 19:17, 6 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't think so. Bowl, Pétanque, Bocce and Boccia have a conjunct for the rule - player if throw the ball to near the target ball, it will have a score.--Pierce (talk) 16:19, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Rules
It would help understanding if a summary of the rules was written.--24.6.198.12 (talk) 06:29, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

pronunciation
No worries! I added the pronounciation onto the article (GlowInTheDarkSushi (talk) 19:01, 20 July 2008 (UTC))

how is "Boccia" pronounced? IPA pronunciation would be helpful in this article.--Jmjanzen (talk) 19:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Boccia is pronounced as with two syllables as "Bot-Cha", I don't know how to add this into the article though, so could someone who is more familiar with Wikipedia oblige? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.4.42.31 (talk) 22:25, 8 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Corrected. (The "i" is only there to cause the "c" to be pronounced like English "ch" and is not itself pronounced; compare focaccia and ciabatta.) &mdash; Paul G (talk) 08:59, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Picture
I don't think the picture illustrates anything about the sport. I didn't know anything about it before, and looking at the photo, I still don't know anything about it. I would suggest deleting it. Conical Johnson (talk) 05:25, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedians to the Games: Boccia events
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 * Boccia in New South Wales
 * Sydney Academy of Sport & Recreation, Wakehurst Parkway, Narrabeen, NSW 2101      Monday April 30 – Thursday May 3 2012 inclusive
 * Boccia in Victoria
 * Saturday 10 March 2012 - Sunday 11 March 2012 08:00am - 05:00pm   Victorian State Boccia Titles

'precision sport'?
What, exactly, is a 'precision sport' supposed to mean?

Similarly, what criteria would a sport have to satisfy to not be a 'precision sport'? Precision would seem to be a fundamental aspect of most, if not all, sports.

The introductory section leaves the reader with no idea at all of exactly what sort of sport is being described, other than the somewhat general, almost meaningless description above and links to other articles.


 * It refers to the relative size of projectile and target. In boccia, as in snooker, cricket, croquet, etc., the target area is comparable to the size of the ball.  In football, hockey, javelin, etc., the target area is much larger than the projectile and less accuracy is required to score successfully.MidlandLinda (talk) 14:41, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

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Restore (and patch up) international competition info?
A bunch of stuff on boccia in the Paralympics, and various world championships (Boccia World Championship, World Cup, World Open, etc.) was mass-reverted recently because it was added by someone's sockpuppet. Without all the redlinks to year articles that will likely never be written, and with proper source-citation formatting (not just a bunch of bare URLs pasted inline), I think most of this material should be restored. Whether it was added by a sock or not has little to do with its encyclopedic relevance. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  20:45, 12 January 2018 (UTC)