Talk About a “Reboulution”
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In Sweden, the story of pétanque goes back to the 1950s, when a French-Swedish man called Jacques Adlivankin brought the game back from a visit to France. He introduced it in the suburbs of Stockholm, where it was initially played on football pitches. This is a story from our latest magazine on sports which explores how the boulebar finally democratised pétanque in Sweden.