Jokari is a racket game principally for two players that can also be played alone. The game consists of a rubber ball attached to an anchor on the floor by means of a long elastic band, which makes the ball come back when a person hits it. Jokari is played with wooden paddles and is similar to

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. The game has been highlighted as a way of engaging children in physical activity. Jokari was invented in France in 1938 by Louis Joseph Miremont, then residing in

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Cultural references

The game has reached cult status in France and is featured in several comics, and also in the 2006

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movie '' OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies'', in the English translation of which, the game is called "paddleball". In the first chapter of Ian Fleming's 1963 novel ''

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'', James Bond also refers to jokari as he is watching a beach on the northern coast of France. In 2015, a group of Belgian medical doctors reported a case of a woman who presented with a wandering spleen, naming this anatomical phenomenon "the Jokari sign".

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Detailed pictorial history of jokari

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