A Russian wrestler has been thrown out of the Deaflympics after it was discovered that his hearing was better than the allowable level for competitors.
Sergey Iankovsky was disqualified during the heats of the Greco-Roman wrestling after Iran launched a protest, claiming that he was responding to instructions from his coach during a bout against an Iranian wrestler last week.
All Deaflympic athletes must remove hearing aids before competition and an International Deaflympic Committee-sanctioned test conducted after the appeal found that Iankovsky had a 48-decibel hearing loss in his good ear, whereas the Deaflympic rules state that competitors must have not less than 55-decibel loss.
Well, the story is a little more clear now. The Russian wrestler was not at all a hearing person.
Click here to see more updates on the idiocy of CISS/Deaflympics officials disqualifying two other deaf/hh competitors for wearing a hearing aid. For the love of Zeus, you can't get any kookier than that.
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