Turkey has been confirmed as the host of the 2020 World Deaf Mountain Bike Championships in Antalya on 20 October - 25 October 2020.

Boudewijn De Roose had passed away last Sunday, 26 January 2020.

03 September 1930 - 24 January 2020 Richard Eugene Caswell, 89, passed away peacefully on January 24, 2020. Dick was an active service member to the CISS as Basketball Technical Delegate for 24 years, 7 World Games for the Deaf.

Poland has been confirmed as the host of the 2nd World Deaf Sailing Championships in Puck, Poland on 12-20 September 2020.

Our sincerely thanks to all our members for their hosting and support of all World Deaf Sports Championships this year. In addition, we thank FSSI (Italy) for their great effort in hosting the 19th Winter Deaflympics with 493 athletes from 34 countries

The WADA welcomed the clean sport community to Katowice, Poland, for its fifth World Conference on Doping in Sport from November 5-7. Among the more than 1,600 representatives was ICSD DCO Artem Buerov with the Polish Deaf Sports Association representativ

Malaysia has been confirmed as the host of the 1st World Deaf Karate Championships on 27 September - 01 October 2020.

Poland has been confirmed as the host of the 2020 World Deaf Beach Volleyball Championships on 09-15 August 2020.

Poland has been confirmed as the host of the 4th World Deaf Athletics Championships on 18-25 July 2020.

New ICSD Technical Director on Chess for the 2019 Winter Deaflympics

ICSD Executive Board was held in Lausanne, Switzerland recently. We have already discussed on many issues during the meeting, and here is the summary in 4 key issues as follows,

WADA publishes the 2020 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods (List); the 2020 Summary of Major Modifications and Explanatory Notes; and the 2020 Monitoring Program. The List comes into force on 1 January 2020.

Austria has been confirmed as the host of the 1st World Deaf Youth Table Tennis Championships and 4th World Deaf Table Tennis Championships in Baden, Austria

Germany has been confirmed as the host of the 5th World Deaf Bowling Championships in Munich

Results of the 2019 World Deaf Badminton Championships in Chinese Taipei

All former Presidents of ICSD (CISS) have the same goal in putting the focus on Deaf Athletes who are the most important. We shall continue the same goal.

The ICSD Executive Board wishes to announce the appointment of the ICSD Vice President of World Sports, Mr. Kang CHEN, as the ICSD Interim President with immediate effect.

Please see the video for the 2019 World Deaf Cycling Championships

Turkish Deaf Sport Federation (Turkey) has been confirmed as the host of the World Deaf Cycling Championships in Turkey

Korea Deaf Sport Federation has been confirmed as the host of the 4th World Deaf Football Championships in Changwon on 05 - 20 September 2020.

It certainly shows we are not alone in dealing with these important issues and that we have a whole community of international federations for support and advice.

For the curling competition at the 2019 Winter Deaflympics from 11-20 December 2019 in Madesimo, Italy, ICSD Executive Board has decided to increase the maximum number of teams for both genders from ten (10) to twelve (12).