Try your hand at petanque, Londoners urged as sport bids for place in Olympics | London | News | London Evening Standard

Try your hand at petanque, Londoners urged as sport bids for place in Olympics | London | News | London Evening Standard
... Mark Hadsell, 38, has been involved in the club — based in Cleaver Square near the Oval in Kennington — for several years. He called on Londoners to try the game, a form of boules where the goal is to throw steel balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet (literally “piglet”), in a bid to increase participation.  ...