News & Announcements

ICSD Reform for Athletes?
One of these recommendations is to establish an ICSD Athletes Commission and for the Chair of the Athletes Commission to have a seat on the ICSD Executive Board with voting rights.
Posted: 2019 Jan 13

New ICSD Legal Commisison
The ICSD board has approved the establishment of the ICSD Legal Commission. Its main work will be to provide legal review of the current constitution and bylaws as well the proposed new constitution and bylaws.
Posted: 2019 Jan 11

2018 Best Sportsmen and Sportswomen Award Finalists
2018 Best Sportsmen and Sportswomen Award
Posted: 2018 Dec 22

2019 Happy New Year Wishes and Greetings
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
Posted: 2018 Dec 21

ICSD President's Greeting to the 2019 Winter Deaflympics OC
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.
Posted: 2018 Dec 19

New chair of the ICSD Technical Commission
ICSD is thrilled to announce the appointment of Mr Martin Bogard to the role of Chair of the ICSD Technical Commission.
Posted: 2018 Dec 13

History of the ICSD Reform Commission
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.
Posted: 2018 Dec 12

2019 World Deaf Orienteering Championships Update
Posted: 2018 Dec 11

Yutaka Osugi is ICSD Reform Commission member
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.
Posted: 2018 Nov 20

New member of the ICSD Reform Commission
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’
Posted: 2018 Nov 19

Second draft of the ICSD Reform documents
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
Posted: 2018 Nov 06

New chair of the ICSD Women in Sports Commission
Posted: 2018 Nov 05

Meeting of the ICSD and the WFD Presidents in Melbourne
ICSD President, Mrs. Rebecca Adam and WFD President, Mr. Colin Allen have meet in Melbourne, Australia
Posted: 2018 Oct 22

ICSD President's Message on ICSD Reform Commisison
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
Posted: 2018 Oct 19

ICSD President's Greetings to the 2018 EDSO Congress
I thought I would share with you the 4 key goals that I would like to see ICSD working to achieve...
Posted: 2018 Oct 18

Summary on IOC - ICSD Meeting
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
Posted: 2018 Sep 13

Views on IOC - ICSD Meeting
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.
Posted: 2018 Sep 13

ICSD President's Message on 2019 Winter Deaflympics
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
Posted: 2018 Sep 13

ICSD President's Message on IOC - ICSD Meeting
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.
Posted: 2018 Sep 12

ICSD President meets President of the Schweizerischer Gehörlosen Sportverband
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.
Posted: 2018 Sep 11

2017 Best Sportsmen and Sportswomen Award Finalists
2017 Best Sportsmen and Sportswomen Award
Posted: 2018 Sep 08

ICSD President's Message on Commissions
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
Posted: 2018 Aug 28

ICSD President's Message on Extraordinary Congress
More information about the recent request for an ICSD Extraordinary Congress (EC) received on 27 July 2018
Posted: 2018 Aug 24

ICSD President's Message on IOC
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
Posted: 2018 Aug 20

New ICSD President's Message
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
Posted: 2018 Aug 11