19th Deaflympic Games Rome 2001 Official Results Book,
Rule Violation and 556 Mistakes

There is another immense and historical  project collapse done by the Lovett-led
CISS adminstration. There are other new acts of rule violation, professional negligence, incompetent leadership and inept supervision by John Lovett and  Donalda Ammons. The two, as you know, are the defendants in my still ongoing lawsuit case. This lawsuit, which also has a third defendant named Jerald Jordan, is based, let me reiterate, on seven different charges: defamation of character, conspiracy, discrimination, breach of contract, breach of trust, rule violations and invasion of privacy.

What went wrong lately and what kind of a project am I talking about?

Let me elaborate further.

I have just received a copy of the book titled 19th Deaflympic Games Rome 2001 Official Results 22th July - 1th August ( cost $20.00 ). Hopefully, by now, every National Sports Association - member of the CISS has already  received this publication copy.
That forewordless and numberlessly-paged book was jointly produced by the CISS and the FISS ( the Italian Sports Federation of the Deaf ). That publication, to much dismay of the many,  was very belatedly released to the world. I use the words "very belatedly" because,  according to the Deaflympic Games Rule 20 P.,  such a book was supposed to be ready to distribute  by November 1, 2001, i.e., exactly three months after the end of the XIXth Deaflympic Summer  Games held in Rome, Italy.

( The Rule 20 P. states the following: a  complete result book of the Deaflympic Games shall be produced within three months following the completion of the Deaflympic Games. The result book shall contain results attained in all heats and the final results, arranged at sport and classification level appropriate for inclusion in Deaflympic Record list ).

Now, you clearly know as to what kind of a new rule violation  the Lovett-administered
CISS committed.

Let  now focus on the key item of this ongoing material of mine, which will steadfastly prove of the  continually and embarassingly genuine ineptness, incompetence and unprofessionalism of the two current CISS administrators - Lovett and Ammons. Both of them, in spite of the violation of the Deaflympic Games Rule 20 P., undoubtedly  had ample time in preparing and supervising the book project.

As a long-time, dedicated  and diligent researcher and historian of the CISS and Deaflympic Games,  I was truly pained to discover over 556 errors, inconsistencies, name misspellings and questionable facts in the book, which, by  my own count, has 208 pages in it.

To get an idea as to what went wrong inside the book, let me, on a random basis, present to you ten different examples:

1. Medal  Count by Nations, Mongolia.
The book stated that the nation of Mongolia won a total of 2 medals ( 1 silver and 1 bronze ). That was  incorrect. The fact was that Mongolia won a total of 4 medals ( 1 silver and 3 bronze ).

2. Medal Count by Nations, Uzbekistan
The book failed to mention that there was an additional nation - Uzbekistan, which won a bronze medal.

3. Athletics Men's, 4x100 m relay, Italy.
Elsewhere in this section, there were mentions that Sejas Rodriquez Osmel, an Italian runner, got disqualified in  the 100 m, 200 m and 400 m. Also, there was a mention that the 4x100 m relay team from Italy ( Sejas Rodriguez Osmel was part of it ) placed second in the semifinals, therefore, it was qualified to run in the finals. However, the book did  not report at all that the Italian relay  team was disqualified to run in the finals.

4. Athletics Men's, 4x400 m relay, semifinal, France.
There was a report of the names of just three runners from France. What was the name of the fourth member of that French relay team?

5. Athletics Women's, Inna Izbash of the Ukraine.
In five various pages there were the two different surnames ( Izbah and Izbash ) of one and same person, Inna Izbash, who was the multiple  gold medal winner  in the 400 m, 400 m hurdles, 4x100 m relay and 4x400 m relay in Rome. Was it difficult for Lovett and Ammons to find out and verify the accurate surname spelling of that Ukrainian star, who also competed at the Deaflympic Games in 1993 and 1997?

6. Athletics Women's, Heather Lightfoot of the USA.
No question, Lovett and Ammons very well know as to who Heather Lightfoot is and how to correctly  spell her first and last names. But, in the book her first and last names  six times were  misspelled such as  Lifhtfoot Heateher  in the hammer throw and javelin event columns!

7. Basketball Men's.
There were 14 teams participating in the tournament in Rome. Missing in the book were the facts that 13th and 14th place finishers in the event were the teams from the Ukraine and Japan, respectively.

8. Table Tennis Men's, Team Men's Preliminary.
The book reported that Russia beat Korea, 3-2, and Italy, 3-0, while Korea beat Italy, 3-0.
With a perfect win record on the printed paper, Russia, however, was placed second, while Korea ( with one win and one loss ) was in  the first place of the Group 4. Did  this scenario make  a sense?

9. Swimming Men's, Terence Parkin of the Republic of South Africa.
The book had such a report:

100 m breaststroke Final A Parkin Terence RSA 1'05''13  O.R.

What do the two letters O.R. stand for? I know  that O.R. is an acronym for Olympic Record. Did Parkin break an Olympic Record for the hearing in the Deaflympic Games in Rome? That is quite impossible! Or, has the CISS received an official permission from the International Olympic Committee to use such two words as Olympic Record in the deaf-related competition?
Moreover, in the book pages  I also questionably spotted three more O.R. letters associated with Parkin's performances in the 200 m free, 200 m breaststroke and 400 m medley events in Rome.

10. Wrestling.
There was a huge oversight in the book as no mention was made in its pages of the fact that every fourth place finisher in both Greco-Roman and free style events also received  bronze medals! 16 additional bronze medals in these two wrestling categories ( 8 in Greco-Roman weight classes and other 8 in free style ) were awarded in the events' site - Ostia, a seaside town near Rome. Why did not both Lovett and Ammons, the chief supervisors of the Rome Games, ask their own colleagues on the CISS Executive Committee Renzo Corti of Italy and Lennart Edwall of Sweden  about the unreported 16 bronze medals awarded to the fourth place finishers? Was there a communication foul-up between these four CISS EC members - the English-speaking Lovett and Ammons, on the one side, and  the non-English-speaking Corti and Edwall, on the other side?  For the record, both Corti and Edwall were the distinguished  dignitaries and well-visible witnesses of   the medal awarding ceremonies in Greco-Roman ( July 26,2001 ) and free style ( July 30, 2001 ) in Ostia, respectively!

Now you have received   the glimpse of what kind of the book both Lovett and Ammons  supervised and prepared as a gift for everyone, especially for the future generations!


It also should be noted that in his recent President's Message for the first E-News, Number 201  ( see  www.ciss.org  E-NEWS ), Lovett wrote the two different paragraphs which were solely related to the ongoing preparation of the Official Results book. Let me exactly quote as to what Lovett wrote on these two paragraphs of his President's Message:

"While there ( in Rome ), I met Renzo Corti who handed  me the final draft of the final results of the 19th Deaflympic Games. I took the draft with me to CISS Office in USA."

"I gave the final draft of the Deaflympic Games' final results to Donalda Ammons and Tiffany Granfors with an instruction that the results be carefully scritinised to obtain accuracy of names and performances, etc. Once this task is completed the disk with corrected details are to be sent to Renzo to be printed by his office and sent to all members of the CISS. We aim for that ( the book ) to happen in middle of November        ( 2001 )."

By reading the above paragraphs it became  clear  that Lovett was not apparently mindful of the strict compliance of the Deaflympic Games Rule 20 P.Who gave Lovett the lattitude  with the Rule 20 P.?   Who authorized Lovett to ignore and dishonor the Rule 20 P.? Did not Lovett want to  know that, according to that Rule, the book was supposed to be ready by November 1, 2001, not "in middle of November" as he wrote to say  that in his recent President's Message on the CISS  e-News?

Also, did Ammons and her biasedly  hand-picked part-time assistant  in the CISS Home  Office in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, Miss Granfors exactly implement the above-mentioned "instruction" by Lovett? Or, was it just an empty and irresponsible  "talk  show" by Lovett in his recent  CISS e-News President's Message column? Interestingly, unlike in the Official Games Results Books in 1997 and 1999,  Lovett did not issue his customary CISS Presidential foreword  in the book pages dedicated to the 2001 Games? Was it his clear snub toward the FISS because Lovett and the FISS did not get along well  with each other in a number of ways  before, during and after the XIXth Deaflympic  Games?

With over 556 inconsistencies discovered in the book, it appears that both Lovett and Ammons were naively behaving  in such a very irresponsible manner:  as if  since  2001 they  both are acting as  the "newcomers"  to the CISS, i.e.,  they are presenting themselves as the immature novices, neglectful researchers, inept leaders, reputed rule violators and  awkward and unsophisticated supervisors!

Another major factor related to the publication of the book is that I already received a number of complaints from  the concerned individuals about the book. They complained that this book is hard to read because many words, sentences and numbers are  very small words, sentences and numbers in print. Thus, for those who have visual problems it will be necessary to utilize a magnifying glass in order to clearly read the contents of the book!

Speaking from the  moneywise point of view, there are the two cardinal questions:

1. is it worth to salariedly employ the still inexperienced amateur and unreliable CISS Home Office assistant, Miss Granfors, who, among the other things, was implicated with her unprofessionally-prepared  and very belatedly-published  book's job performamce?
2. who will be willing to throw  20 American dollars away in order to buy that 208-paged, 556 errors-filed and visually-hard-to-read book?  

Finally, let me conclude  this material on the following note.
For our international deaf sports community the start of the contemporary 21st century  and new third millennium has very disappointingly been marked in a very negative and discouraging way. In 2001, among the other things, we witnessed the disorganization of the Games in Rome and the highly-questionable publication of the 196-paged, 202 mistakes-filled CISS 2001 REVIEW book. And now, in 2002,  we are witnessing the poorly and inappropriately-prepared  book called 19th Deaflympic Games Rome 2001 Official Results 22th July-1th August! Very sadly and regrettfully, the supervisors of these three major and historical projects in the CISS were my former friends and colleagues, Lovett and Ammons, who are one day still  coveting  and dreaming   to receive, like Jordan did in 1994 and 1995,  the honorary doctorate degree from Gallaudet University and  the Olympic Order from the International OlympicCommittee!

( Did you know that Jerald Jordan, Lovett's and Ammons' "genial and top-rated advisor" in the CISS, for "his outstanding and valuable" contribution to the international sports cause was the recipient of the honorary doctorate degree from Gallaudet University in 1994 and the Olympic Order from  the IOC in 1995? ).

In the meantime, I wish each of you to have a good time in watching on your  TV  this weekend's start of the XXIVth edition of the  Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Sportingly Yours,

Rafael Pinkhasov Pinchas

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