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Deaflympics media Watch (for 17th November 2025)

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A gold medal landed yesterday. It should have lit up the sports world. Instead, it flickered in the margins.

Indian shooter Dhanush Srikanth claimed gold in the men’s 10 m air rifle at the Tokyo Deaflympics and broke a world record in the process. (The Times of India) Yet the global headlines barely moved.

Dhanush Srikanth won gold and broke a world record in the Men’s shooting


In Japan, a local Japanese-language outlet ran a tech/inclusion piece on the Games and the host city’s accessibility strategy — accessible to those digging through Japanese livestreams, but easy for global sports desks to ignore.


And in Latin America, a Spanish-language website celebrated the arrival of the Games with local athletes boarding flights, yet still no major live result coverage.

The UK media ran a strong piece on the funding gap facing Deaflympians, reminding the world that while medals are won recognition is still waiting.


The athletes are winning. The stories are there. But the broadcast and mainstream media radar? Still silent.

The question stands: when record-breaking performances happen, will they get the spotlight they deserve — or will they remain hidden in niche feeds?

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Deaflympics Media Watch (16 November 2025)

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Data collected 0900 JST 16-Nov-2025

The Games are underway — but you’d hardly know it from the world’s sports desks.

Today should have been the moment the headlines shifted from warm-up stories to actual competition: goals scored, medals won, shocks, heroics, heartbreak. Instead? Silence. And not the Deaf kind. The media kind.

Yes, the results exist. They’re sitting quietly on the official Tokyo 2025 website. They’re in federation match reports — like the USA Deaf Women smashing Japan 5–0, or the Ukrainian men putting five past the US team. They’re hidden in Japanese corporate updates and athlete sponsor pages. The wrestling brackets are fully up. The schedules are live. The data is there.

Japan Today reported on members of the imperial family in attendance at the Opening Ceremony. (Image: POOL via ZUMA press Wire)

But where are the stories?

Where is the mainstream “Day 1 at the Deaflympics”?
Where is the BBC Sport medal table ticker?
Where is the ESPN highlight reel?
Where is even one big newsroom saying “Here’s what happened today”?

This is the pattern we’re exposing: if a Deaf athlete wins, you have to dig through official PDFs and federation pages to find out. The world’s sports media aren’t telling the story. Not yet. Media access information

And that’s exactly why we’re watching.
Exactly why we’re documenting this gap.
Exactly why we’re doing this work.

Because the athletes are competing.
The results are happening.
The moments are real.
The coverage should be too.

Real sport with real results, ignored by real newsrooms.

All the details are here on the official Deaflympics2025 website

Live action via You Tube