Boules at the 1900 Summer Olympics
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Boules was on the Summer Olympic Games programme in 1900.[1][2] Boules events have generally not been classified as official, although the IOC has never decided which events were "Olympic" and which were not.[3] As with the sport of croquet, generally regarded as "official", boules satisfied three of four retrospective criteria — restriction to amateurs, open to all nations, open to all competitors and without handicapping. As with croquet, there were only French players. (All other "official" events met all four criteria.)[4]