It will be dificult to be second in medal table, Colombia increases the diferences more and more with the time........
It's mostly because they will win everything in skating (8 medals with no serious competition in this continent...) and because of one boy that won everything in gymnastics except the rings (7 golds lol).
Other than that it's not really an impressive performance from them.
Really strange decision to have very few events between Monday-Wednesday.
I believe it's because there was a big shift between kids that already finished and those that compete this week. The lodging in these games is limited (there's nothing like an athletes village, I think they are in hotels). Understand, all this is being organized with pennies.
You add a bunch more non olympic sports + hockey/rugby (absent here) + larger water sports presence + more serious competition in things like Cycling and the result is Colombia probably below Argentina again in Santiago (which won't mean our sport is great, far from it...).
Argentina, Brazil and Mexico all had terrible performances in women's artistic gymnastics. Argentina had the worst day of them all, though. It's going to be USA for the gold medal, Brazil with the silver medal and Mexico with the bronze medal.
It's a little unfair because 13 year-old girls were not allowed in this competition, and Argentina's best girls are all 13 years old. Bummer.
Where do you even get news about 13 year old argentinian gymnasts?
Athletics was 2001/02. Most of the others too I assume.
Either way, athletics gives most athletes.
I just checked and it's less than half sports. However it does include athletics and gymnastics out of the most crowded sports (though the women in gymnastics are so young at YOG that some are born in the year of the next SOG).
Why is it postponed for 4 years? couldn't it be for 1 or 2?
I'm sad about the generation of athletes that won't have this experience. Despite the joke sports the event has a beautiful energy, one of the most engaging things I attended to as sport fan.
Well, without going further in a thread that doesn't belong, let's say I'm against any word that finishes in "-ism". As a profesor at high school said, "any ism seeks to have the absolute truth in a world of relatives"
Very interesting read, but my heart broke when I learned that Ernesto Rodrigues III died last year. He compiled a book with the results of the South American Games, as well as the Pan Am Games and the Olympic Games, but the one about the SA Games remain the only credible source of historical results for the competition. He even distributed it for free. I e-mailed him once and he replied with enthusiasm about his book. Oh, man. Life is unfair. He will be missed.
He had an account here: @EPHECTO only posted once though. He died a few days before Rodrigo Huk if I recall correctly.
Lol our female karateca is so bad. She got punched in the face like a hundred times by the brazilian woman, it's cruel to say but it was a bit funny to watch.
-Men's hockey (should be a win in any normal day).
-both trinquete in pelota (should be two easy wins).
-1500m free W swimming (should be easy).
-lightning medal race (2 point advantage over Brazil, which means they have to beat them or they lose it).
- lightweight single sculls W and the 8 (both should be very close though).
- men's football final (it's Honduras but you never know at this level).
Other than this we also have 3 other finals in pelota (2 which are even, one impossible) and the team final in racquetball (quite hard). Also, I don't have a precise idea of the chances of our lightweight fours in rowing.
Oh, and I have simply no clue who is supposed to win in bodybuilding.
Now I think their remaining chances are the 4 speed skating, Alvear in Judo, 2 in compound archery and the road races in cycling? Don't know what their chances are like in Wrestling and Karate...
I really dont understand the users who says that Cuba is "much stronger" than Argentina in male waterpolo......like you can see, it is not exactly like that.
the Olympic champion ,only 5th place 
I think their remaining chances are the 4 speed skating, Alvear in Judo, 2 in compound archery and the road races in cycling? Don't know what their chances are like in Wrestling and Karate...
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Good final push with 7 golds today but not enough.
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