Talk:Deaf people in the Olympics

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This article has been written because many people, both Deaf and hearing are always wondering about deaf people's involvement in the Olympic Games. It is hoped that this article will provide facts and figures needed to confirm deaf peoples involvement.

The author will continue to add to this article as much as possible over the coming weeks. There is much more detailed information needed but the author wanted to get the page out ASAP so that it could evolve from its beginnings. This is the author's first attempt at writing for wikipedia so all readers and contributors are asked for their understanding and patience.

The author anticipates that there will be some discussions around the definitions of what classifies a deaf athlete etc and hopeful through the evolution of this article we will be able to define this matter.

All suggestions are welcome — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sharrison64 (talk • contribs)
 * I've helped you fixed up the pages a bit by removing internal wikipedia links only to sources OUTSIDE of wikipedia. Policy at Wikipedia states that you must use Reliable Sources.  Although Wikipedia articles are tertiary sources, Wikipedia employs no systematic mechanism for fact checking or accuracy. Because Wikipedia forbids original research, there is nothing reliable in it that isn't citable with something else. Thus Wikipedia articles (or Wikipedia mirrors) are not reliable sources for any purpose.  See WP:RS.  Other than that, people who simply attended the Olympics who appear to have not contributed in anyways directly in the Olympics such as the torchbearers do not need to be mentioned.  Why?  How do you verify it?  Just saying they were there doesn't make it so hence the need for Reliable Sources.  ViriiK (talk) 02:09, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

Obvious omission from the list - Australia's Dean Barton-Smith. 1992 Olympics (Decathlon), 4x Deaflympian. http://www.theage.com.au/news/Sport/Throwing-his-hat-in-the-ring/2005/01/06/1104832243473.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.176.4.101 (talk) 07:44, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

May 27 2017 Omission from the list: Gerhard Sperling, race walker from Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Sperling https://www.deaflympics.com/athletes.asp?2608 I try to insert it in the table. I don't have too much experience editing in Wikipedia I don't know how to put the Germany flag I thonk I made a mistake when I insert a cite and delete the previous number 8 cite — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexiscorreia (talk • contribs) 07:59, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

This should probably be in a different section:

"To qualify for the Deaflympics, "athletes must have a hearing loss of at least 55db in their 'better ear'. Hearing aids, cochlear implants and the like are not allowed to be used in competition, to place all athletes on the same level"[3] In the Olympics, there is no restriction on hearing loss or use of hearing aids."

This is not about the chart but rather about qualifications. Perhaps that should be its own section.

Aquakatze (talk) 20:02, 15 March 2020 (UTC) Aquakatze

Specify Sports in the Chart
In the chart, specific sport disciplines should be given instead of the generic sports, for example for the German Gerhard Sperling - Long Distance Walking, and for the Russian Skoumarachov (sp.?) 400m and 400m Hurdles, etc. There are additional participants in the Olympiade: an Italian diver at the Mexico City Olympics who placed 4th or 5th, and a Romanian female fencer also in Mexiko City. 74.104.160.45 (talk) 08:03, 14 August 2021 (UTC) Hartmut Teuber, 14 August 2021

Capitalization
"The table below shows Deaf athletes...." Should the word Deaf be capitalized here (i.e., "pertaining to Deaf culture"), or it just means "having hearing loss" and should not be capitalized? I think the latter. Burzuchius (talk) 16:52, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

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