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| Host city | Caxias do Sul, Brazil |
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| Motto | Sport comes from our hearts (Portuguese: O esporte vem dos nossos corações) |
| Nations | 72 |
| Athletes | 2466 |
| Events | 219 in 18 sports |
| Opening | 1 May 2022 |
| Closing | 15 May 2022 |
| Opened by | First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro |
| Main venue | Festa da Uva Main Paviliion |
| Website | website |
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The 2021 Summer Deaflympics, officially known as the 24th Summer Deaflympics or XXIV Summer Deaflympics, and commonly known as Caxias Do Sul 2021, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 15 May 2022 in Brazil. The main host city was Caxias do Sul, Brazil, originally scheduled for December 2021 but postponed until May 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1][2] In addition to Caxias, there were events scheduled for the neighboring cities of Farroupilha and Flores da Cunha. In April 2022, CISS has announced that due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian and Belarusian athletes were barred from competing in Caxias do Sul, and in the same press release it was also announced that the bowling tournament was scheduled to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during October 2022.[3]
The 24th Summer Deaflympics Games were originally scheduled to be held from 25 September to 6 October 2020 in Tokyo, but was decided to withdraw and host it in 2021 due to the schedule of 2020 Summer Olympics.
This is the first time the Games are being held in a Latin American country, in a South American country as Rio de Janeiro was stripped of the hosting rights for the 2016 Summer Deaflympics, which was transferred to Samsun in 2017, and not during the summer of the host city (as May is the end of autumn in Brazil). This is also the first time since the 2007 Winter Deaflympics, held in Salt Lake City, for the event to be held in the CISS Americas Region, and the third time for the Games to be held in the Southern Hemisphere as the 1989 games were held in Christchurch in New Zealand and 2005 games Melbourne in Australia.