Supporters of Bersih claim Statement that demands Request for electoral reform Reforming_a_system made Action during the 2007 demonstration fell Motion_directional on deaf ears .

One version of events claims Statement that during the process of disarming the Lakota , a deaf tribesman named Black Coyote was reluctant to give up his rifle , claiming he had paid a lot for it .

The Games were held in Paris , France , from 10 to 17 August 1924 , as an equivalent to the Olympic Games for deaf athletes .

They were organised Arranging on the initiative of deaf Frenchman Eugène Rubens-Alcais , who , just after the Games , co-founded Collaboration the Comité International des Sports des Sourds with other `` deaf sporting leaders '' .

They were organised Arranging on the initiative of deaf Frenchman Eugène Rubens-Alcais , who , just after the Games , co-founded Collaboration the Comité International des Sports des Sourds with other `` deaf sporting leaders '' .

( Rubens-Alcais had previously founded Creating France 's first sports federation for the deaf and mute , in 1918 . )

The 1924 Games were `` the first games Competition ever '' for athletes with a disability , preceding the World Wheelchair and Amputee Games in 1948 , which became Becoming the Paralympic Games in 1960 but which did not include events for deaf athletes .

The Games for the deaf were `` modelled on the Olympic Games '' .

Specifically , France , Belgium , Great Britain , Latvia , the Netherlands , and Poland `` already had a sports federation '' for the deaf , while Italy , Romania and Hungary each sent Sending one athlete despite having no such federation yet .