Deaflympics

So now I'm also involved with the Canadian Deaf National Hockey Team.

So you may or may not be aware, there's the Deaflympics, there's the Olympics, there's Paralympics, there's also the Deaflympics.

It started out as the Silent Games in 1924 in Paris.

It is the second oldest multi-sport event after the Olympics in the world.

I have five nephews that could play on the team.

So yeah, not all of them are gonna be there because unfortunately the funding for, and same as the funding for amateur athletics is tied to the Olympic and Paralympic system.

The Deaflympics are not recognized as equals.

So the funding for athletes going to death games is not the same as it is for others.

That rare combination captured the breadth of his contribution and showed how one person can influence the game through performance, leadership, and service.

Checking in at number 47, Graham Bodnar represents Canada at the Deaflympics.

His 2025 appearance on the international stage highlighted Manitoba's connection to deaf basketball and showed that the province pathways extended into inclusive and adaptive competition.

It was a proud Manitoba moment and an important example of representation at the highest level of deaf sport.

totally wrong.

UK Deaf Sports have a brilliant programme called Destination Deaflympics, doing really great work with mainstream governing bodies, helping sports such as cricket and gymnastics and swimming, think about how they can include deaf participants.

Special Olympics GB, we've got loads of different specific sports.

We've got British flying sports, boccia, there's so many out there.

How are you enjoying the CBS panel? Are you missing playing? I know you did lose a throwing competition to a college kid on College Game Day two weeks ago, but might you be available to join us? Like, Jameis looks...

like a guy that has been at the Olympics, at the Macy's Day Parade, basically everywhere other than practice or meetings with a playbook.

He was

awful on Monday.

He's an ambassador for the Canadian Deaf Sports Organization.

Funny, I didn't know this.

They don't get funded the same way the Paralympics or the Olympics do.

So they're working really hard to send our deaf athletes to the Olympic Games, the Deaf Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria in January.