Deaflympics

Deaflympics Games
Comité International des Sports des Sourds
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Motto	PER LUDOS AEQUALITAS (Equality through sport)
First event	1924 in Paris, France – 1924 Summer Deaflympics
Occur every	4 years
Last event	2024 in Erzurum, Turkey – 2024 Winter Deaflympics (Winter)
Next event	2025 Summer Deaflympics, Tokyo, Japan
Purpose	Provision of opportunities for deaf persons to participate in elite sports
Website	www.deaflympics.com; www.ciss.org

The Deaflympics, also known as Deaflympiad (previously called World Games for the Deaf, and International Games for the Deaf) are a periodic series of multi-sport events sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at which Deaf athletes compete at an elite level. Unlike the athletes in other IOC-sanctioned events (the Olympics, the Paralympics, and the Special Olympics), athletes cannot be guided by sounds (such as starting pistols, bullhorn commands or referee whistles).^[2] The games have been organized by the Comité International des Sports des Sourds (CISS, "The International Committee of Sports for the Deaf") since the first event in 1924.

^ "Constitution". Archived 25 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine. International Committee of Sports for the Deaf. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
^ International Committee of Sports for the Deaf – News Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Deaflympics.com. Retrieved 17 October 2011.