Report from Vice President - Youth Sports

Recently we returned from Slovakia where the Board met and decided on several issues.

As the Chair of Athletes Commission we had decided to elect several deaf athletes to become the members of the Athletes Commission. Their duty is as follows:

• To collect suggestions from other athletes
• To discover the athletes problems that the management may not know
• To collect athletes requirements with regard to the Deaflympics
• To raise new ideas to improve the athletes status.

There may be several more issues that we may have overlooked and the Athletes Commission will help us to solve the unseen problems and the Board will be too happy to take care for their suggestions. The letters will be sent shortly to first five National Deaf Sports Federations for their approval of their respective athletes.

Deaf Youth Sports is being under review and has been started building and collecting information and hopefully we will approach several various bodies to get it under way.

Under Deaf Sports Reform, Deaf Youth Sports is one of three main sections (Deaflympics and World Deaf Sports are other two sections under respective President and Vice President) and we are very much committed to this movement to break through to advancement and growth of the Deaf Sports including the deaf youth. Nowadays more and more various government and other bodies recognize that youth sports is very much essential for health purpose therefore Deaflympics also sees that this project of youth deaf sports is one of the highest priorities for all deaf.

Any suggestion or question will be with great pleasure accepted and your co-operation is highly appreciated.

Best wishes for 2010.

David LANESMAN
ICSD Vice President - World Youth Sports