MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT

I am very pleased to welcome all athletes, who come to Buenos Aires, Argentine to participate in the 3rd Deaf Pan American Games!

The Comité International des Sports des Sourds (CISS), being the French translation of the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf, was first founded by a group of Deaf sports leaders who met in Paris in 1924. For 80 years, the CISS was responsible for major international sporting events for Deaf people all over the world.

Argentina Deaf Sports Federation (CADES) is one of the first members of the CISS from South America and has extensive experience in organisation of major international deaf sporting events. I am very confident that the City of Buenos Aires will be a perfect setting for the Deaf Games backed by excellent organizational skills of the Deaf Sports Federation plus strong local support from the City leaders!

I am very sure that all visitors will enjoy and take pleasure in their stay in this city and the competitors will have benefit from first class facilities to enable them to perform at their very best level!

The Games is the event where elite deaf athletes can gather together to not only celebrate their sporting prowess but to show the world that their deafness is not a disability or handicap but a way of life of which they can be proud.

To all athletes, officials and visitors I wish them a wonderful and memorable stay in the City of Buenos Aires!

John M. LOVETT, A.M.
PRESIDENT.
CISS