Orienteering

21st Summer Deaflympics
Incredibly, the 21st Summer Deaflympics in Taipei was very good in organizing a successful orienteering event and they cooperated with CTOA (Chinese Taipei Orienteering Association). Great arrangement and did the same conditions as the World Orienteering Championships. I considered it a successful orienteering competition.

Also the terrain, Ching Tian Gang, was amazing and beautiful as well as the Yangming Park. Orienteers were very pleased with the exciting competition. Although the weather was bad - very variable, most days were pouring down but we also had sun too. Many audience came to the competition.

I thank and congratulate the organizing committee for their help and I will never forget it! If you have Facebook, so you can surf into it and it has many pictures.

2011 World Deaf Orienteering Championships
We had to postpone WDOC 2010 to 2011, because we must take into consideration the regions of Asia-Pacific and Americas with both the Summer Deaflympics and WDOC every other year and we will hold them every two Summer Deaflympics and WDOC.

Ukraine Deaf Sports Federation will arrange host WDOC, August, 2011, but UDSF schedule to meet on WDOC in 2011 at the end of October and will apply for papers to ICSD's office soon.

When ICSD confirms the official papers, we can then officially announce this event and send out invitations and information about WDOC 2011 to deaf sports federations in all countries.

If you want to read more information about orienteering, you can visit the page on www.deaforienteering.org

Marek MIR-MACKIEWICZ
ICSD Technical Director - Orienteering