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This is an ″″article of Deaf sportsmen and women who have competed at the Olympic Games″″.

Deaf athletes at the Olympic Games
According to wikipedia, the first deaf person to compete at the Olympic Games was Carlo Orlandi, a deaf boxer from Italy who competed in the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam.

There are examples of a 'glass ceiling" effect when it comes to deaf athletes making the grade to compete at the Olympics, some of this is down to ignorance of decision makers or instances where small adaptations are not being made to accommodate deaf athletes as in the case of Marcus Titus

There is a greater need to promote role models of deaf athletes in the Olympic games because individual perceptions of young deaf people and their families may be that the standard of the Olympics are beyond the reach of those who are deaf.

However we are now witnessing coaches who are now able to adapt their strategies to accommodate deaf athletes, particularly those taking part in team sports. The American men's volleyball coach John Speraw has the "David Smith Rule" for his middle blocker,