Boules at the 1900 Summer Olympics

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.