Read: BBC Radio’s Sportshour debate on the future of the Deaflympics with Deputy Editor Andy Palmer

Posted on January 20, 2014 by



On Saturday, BBC World Service show Sportshour hosted a debate about the Deaflympics and it’s relationship with the Paralympics – in the week that the venue for the 2015 Winter Deaflympics was confirmed.

Craig Crowley, former President of the International Committee of Sports for Deaf and Limping Chicken’s Deputy Editor, Andy Palmer, discussed issues surrounding international deaf sports.

You can listen to the show here or read the transcript of the report and conversation here:

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