I was looking into bocce because of this post: Trump walked into Arcaro and Genell Takeaway Kitchen PA in Joe Biden's backyard, and said "So the pizza's good, I hear, huh?" Check this out... - https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3985471/25281367

Along with its Italian dining experience, Arcaro & Genell also keeps another Italian tradition alive: bocce. The outdoor game, which originated in Ancient Rome, traveled with Italian immigrants to their new homes. Today, Angelo said it’s become a popular pastime at the restaurant...“We’re involved with the bocce leagues with the Sons of Italy in Old Forge, and it’s starting to be a place where a lot of people can have fundraisers and raise money in a fun way,” Angelo said

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocce

Another development, for persons with disabilities, is called boccia. It is a shorter-range game, played with leather balls on an indoor, smooth surface. Boccia was first introduced to the Paralympics at the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Summer Games, and is one of the only two Paralympic sports that do not have an Olympic counterpart (the other being goalball).

1984 Summer Paralympics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Summer_Paralympics

The 1984 International Games for the Disabled, canonically the 1984 Summer Paralympics were the seventh Paralympic Games to be held. There were in two separate competitions: one in Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom for wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries and the other at the Mitchel Athletic Complex and Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, United States of America for wheelchair and ambulatory athletes with cerebral palsy, amputees, and les autres [the others] (conditions as well as blind and visually impaired athletes). Stoke Mandeville had been the location of the Stoke Mandeville Games from 1948 onwards, seen as the precursors to the Paralympic Games...

The mascot for the 1984 Paralympic Games was Dan D. Lion, which was designed by an art teacher Maryanne McGrath Higgins.

IWAS World Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWAS_World_Games [IWAS as opposed to I.AM?]

The International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports (IWAS) World Games (or IWAS World Games) are a multi-sport competition for athletes with a disability, which under the former name of the International Stoke Mandeville Games were the forerunner of the Paralympic Games. The competition has been formerly known as the World Wheelchair and Amputee Games, the Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Games, the Stoke Mandeville Games, the World Wheelchair Games, and in the 1960s and 1970s was often referred to as the Wheelchair Olympics...The Games were originally held in 1948 by neurologist Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who organized a sporting competition involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital rehabilitation facility in Aylesbury, England

As Jimmy Savile had his own set of keys to come and go at that hospital as he pleased I thought I should look further..

Ludwig Guttmann - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Guttmann

Sir Ludwig "Poppa" Guttmann CBE FRS[1] (3 July 1899 – 18 March 1980)[2][3] was a German-born British[4] neurologist who established the Paralympic Games in England. The Jewish doctor, who had fled Nazi Germany just before the start of the Second World War, is considered to be one of the founding fathers of organised physical activities for people with a disability...

He was considered to be the top neurosurgeon in Germany....He arrived with his wife Else Samuel Guttmann and two children, a son, Dennis and daughter, Eva aged 6 in Oxford, England, on 14 March 1939.[2] CARA, which negotiated with the British Home Office on their behalf, gave Guttmann and his family £250 (equivalent to around £10,000 today) to help settle in Oxford. ..

In September 1943, the British government asked Guttmann to establish the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire.[2] When the centre opened on 1 February 1944, the United Kingdom's first specialist unit for treating spinal injuries, Guttmann was appointed its director (a position he held until 1966).

.Stoke Mandeville Stadium, the National Centre for Disability Sport in the United Kingdom, was developed by him alongside the hospital.

Great Minds: Migrants and Medicine - https://www.cara.ngo/great-minds-migrants-and-medicine/

Sir Ludwig Guttmann (Cara Grantee) with Queen Elizabeth .. The talks focused on the theme of Medicine, discussing the Paralympics, Psychology and Pharmaceuticals.

..Ross MacFarlane, The Wellcome Collection Ross McFarlane of the Wellcome Collection will be explore the work of Henry Wellcome’s pharmaceutical research laborotories, and his work in the field of tropical medicine.

Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Summer Games - https://www.paralympicheritage.org.uk/tel-aviv-1968-paralympic-summer-games

At the next meeting of the ISMGC, President of the Israeli Stoke Mandeville Committee, Mr Arieh Fink, said the Israeli Government was ‘most enthusiastic’ about hosting the Games, particularly as it coincided with the twentieth anniversaries of both the state of Israel and Stoke Mandeville Games. Israeli President, Mr Zalman Shazar, agreed to be the Games Patron and a budget of nearly £50,000 had been set.

..The opening ceremony was held on 4th November 1989 at the Hebrew University Stadium in Jerusalem in front of 10,000 spectators. After the parade of nations, the crowd were entertained with performances by a military band, a girls’ choir and a group of folk dancers. Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann gave the opening ceremony speech.

Savile’s Stoke Mandeville Paedophile Doctors https://goodnessandharmony.wordpress.com/2017/01/03/stoke-mandeville-hospital-paedophile-ring-sir-jimmy-savile-dr-michael-salmon-dr-bruce-bailey-dr-john-narendran-dreamflight-charity/ [archived: http://archive.is/1cyLt]

I don't have time to tease out the relevant info now but that link is a treasure trove of information on Dr Ludwig.