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Campaign to bring billiards to the Olympic Games 2024

Campaign to bring billiards to the Olympic Games 2024
This is the official campaign to bring billiards as an additional sport to the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

The World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS) is running a campaign to prove the worthiness of billiard sport to the International Olympic Committee.

On the 21st of March, 2018, The WCBS officially presented to the IOC the candidacy of billiards as an additional sport to the Paris Olympic Games 2024 in full cooperation with the host country’s Fédération Française de Billard (FFB).
  • Do you know a sport that requires concentration, relaxation, lucidity and precision? This sport exists: it’s billiards.
  • Do you know an intergenerational, friendly, educational and beneficial sport for your health? This sport is still billiards…
  • Do you know a sport where you can anticipate, design, attack and defend?

It’s still billiards !


Whoever you are, you can play billiards anywhere in the world.
If you are Mozart or Einstein you liked playing billiards.
If you are a teenager with the skills of a chess player and the touch of a pianist, you will be a billiard champion…

Whether you enjoy playing pool, 3-cushion, snooker, blackball, 5-pins, carom, pyramid, chinese pool … You are a part of the universal community of billiards sports.

Billiards has all the assets of an Olympic sport. To become one, we need your support.
Sign this petition and have it signed around you so that billiards will be in Paris in 2024 : https://www.change.org/p/bringing-billiards-to-the-olympic-games-2024

Latest from Vivek Pathak - Media Officer, IBSF

International Billiards and Snooker Federation