Know your facts:

• Boccee has been a sport at Special Olympics World Games since 1991
• Unified Sports? Yes
• Estimated number of athletes participating: 247 athletes + 50 Unified partners

Bocce is the Italian version of the well-known French ball game boules. It works like this: each team has four balls, which the team members throw on the ground as close as possible to a smaller setting ball, known as the pallino, or shoot the opposing balls away from the pallino.

We have five disciplines:

1. Singles
2. Doubles
3. Team (four people)
4. Unified Doubles
5. Unified Team (four people)

By the way:

There is evidence that bocce was played as early as 264 B.C. in Rome.