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Testing times start well before games events

How deaf is deaf? To be eligible as a “deaf” competitor a person must have a 56 percent hearing loss in their best ear. Every country in the games has to check all its competitors before they attend but a back up is brought in to prevent cheating.

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Taonga source:
Christchurch Star
Reference number:
SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1989-057
Bibliographic source:
Christchurch Star, 17 January 1989, p.14
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