News & Announcements

2018 Dec 22 - ICSD News - 2018 Best Sportsmen and Sportswomen Award

2018 Dec 21 - Message from the President - As we greet the New Year, I am delighted to join all ICSD members and athletes in welcoming the year 2019 both at home and abroad. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the ICSD Board, Staff, ICSD Members and athletes for their efforts in the pas

2018 Dec 19 - Deaflympic News - After Khanty-Mansiysk and Magnitogorsk in Russia, it will be the turn of the great nation of Italy to host the athletes of the Winter Deaflympics.

2018 Dec 13 - Message from the President - ICSD is thrilled to announce the appointment of Mr Martin Bogard to the role of Chair of the ICSD Technical Commission.

2018 Dec 12 - ICSD News - So in 2006, the ICSD Board had to initiate some reform ideas with the ICSD members at the Symposium in Zagreb, Croatia. Then again, at the ICSD Extraordinary Congress in Bratislava, Slovakia.

2018 Dec 11 - ICSD News -

2018 Nov 20 - ICSD News - ICSD has been on its reform journey for some time. What this has shown is that like for any reform work, it is not easy and requires a lot of commitment and hard work from all of us.

2018 Nov 19 - Message from the President - I am pleased and delighted that we have a new person from that region to fill the vacancy on the commission. His name is Yukata Osugi and he is an ideally qualified to fill this role having been involved in ICSD’s work on reform in the early days of ICSD’

2018 Nov 06 - ICSD News - The success of our Reform program rests upon the collective strengths of the ICSD family. It is intended to be our collective vision for ICSD’s future

2018 Nov 05 - Message from the President -

2018 Oct 22 - ICSD News - ICSD President, Mrs. Rebecca Adam and WFD President, Mr. Colin Allen have meet in Melbourne, Australia

2018 Oct 19 - Message from the President - The new ICSD Reform Commission is responsible for the co-ordination and oversight of the ICSD Reform Program and will play a very important role in the changes taking place in ICSD

2018 Oct 18 - Message from the President - I thought I would share with you the 4 key goals that I would like to see ICSD working to achieve...

2018 Oct 10 - General News - The IOC adopted the Athletes’ Rights and Responsibilities Declaration (Athletes’ Declaration) during the second day of the Session in Buenos Aires on 9 October. This ground-breaking document was formed following an extensive process that gathered the view

2018 Sep 30 - General News - On 28 September 2018, the WADA publishes the 2019 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods (List); the 2019 Summary of Major Modifications and Explanatory Notes; and the 2019 Monitoring Program. The List, which was approved by WADA’s Executive Committee

2018 Sep 13 - Deaflympic News - It is with pleasure that I inform you that ICSD met with representatives from the Federazione Sport Sordi Italia (FSSI), the Organising Committee of the 2019 Winter Deaflympics in Italy and that we agreed to proceed with signing of the hosting agreement f

2018 Sep 13 - Message from the President - This is just a few examples of the exciting partnership that lie ahead of ICSD and IOC and I am feeling very inspired by these real and meaningful opportunities for ICSD and IOC to work side by side, going forward

2018 Sep 13 - ICSD News - The meeting was an opportunity for us to put names to people’s faces and the impression I got was that we were very well aligned to each other’s needs and expectations. We were very transparent with each other.

2018 Sep 12 - Message from the President - We have just had a 2 (two) hour long joint meeting with representatives from the IOC and ICSD in attendance. A very robust discussion was had with many topics covered including women in sports, our athletes commission and our governance.

2018 Sep 11 - ICSD News - The President of the ICSD, Rebecca Adam, today met with the President of the National Deaf Sports Federation of Switzerland, Mr Anton Koller, at the ICSD office in Lausanne.

2018 Sep 08 - ICSD News - 2017 Best Sportsmen and Sportswomen Award

2018 Aug 28 - Message from the President - The ICSD Commissions play a vital role in the effective functioning and governance of ICSD and we need more members involved to make them work

2018 Aug 24 - Message from the President - More information about the recent request for an ICSD Extraordinary Congress (EC) received on 27 July 2018

2018 Aug 20 - Message from the President - A short update about the ICSD situation with the IOC. Since then, ICSD has been working with the IOC Ethics and Compliance Office to provide the following information: • ICSD financial reports • ICSD accounts • ICSD reform documents

2018 Aug 11 - Message from the President - With every new ICSD President there inevitably comes a change in emphasis and culture. Under my leadership, ICSD will provide more transparency, increase the frequency of its communications, and improve its engagement with our stakeholders. We are worki