SINGAPORE: In a city along the French Riviera about seven years ago, Josephine Pan caught a glimpse of a sport she had never seen before: Petanque.“I was very curious about it because I never seen something like that before,” she told CNA. “They just kind of looked like they were having a lot of fun together.”Returning home from Nice, Josephine practised with brightly coloured plastic petanque balls her parents had bought.“I would just play with my family downstairs, and then eventually we realised that there were actual courts here.
One of the times we were playing here just for fun, we were invited to an … introductory event,” she said.At 16, Josephine will be Singapore’s sole representative in petanque at the 32nd SEA Games in Cambodia.
She will compete in the women’s singles event.In petanque, players score points by tossing metal balls or boules as close as possible to a small target ball, which is known as a jack.
The game is typically played on a gravel-like surface.“I didn't really think about representing Singapore (when I first started).