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In Gymnastics, Rebeca Andrade won't do the AA so Brazil probably not only has lost this medal but also a possible team gold. She's a favourite on Vault and Bars, but has american competition. Hopefully Flavia Saraiva can win a gold in any event.

 

Without Caio Souza, Brazil isn't a favourite in any event on the men's side. Curiously enough, Arthur Nory will compete in AA for the first time in years (he doesn't do Rings), trying to get the Olympic quota.

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5-8 Swimming
4-6 Gymnastics (Rhythmic)
3-5 Judo
2-4 Gymnastics (Artistic)
2-3 Table Tennis
1-5 Athletics
1-3 Sailing
1-2 Beach Volleyball
1-2 Boxing
1-2 Canoeing Slalom
1-2 Handball
1-2 Skateboarding
1-2 Surfing
1-2 Taekwondo
0-1 Archery
0-1 Badminton
0-1 Basketball
0-1 Canoeing Sprint
0-1 Cycling BMX
0-1 Equestrian
0-1 Fencing
0-1 Football
0-1 Gymnastics (Trampoline)
0-1 Karate
0-1 Open Water
0-1 Roller Skating (Artistic)
0-1 Rugby Sevens
0-1 Tennis
0-1 Triathlon
0-1 Volleyball

 

Total: 26 to 64 gold medals

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4 hours ago, Laraja said:

Where do you think the Opening Ceremony would be?

 

I would love to have this event taking place in my city. As you said, so easy to go everywhere. But why do you think they would have much more work to do? The venus are basically done. The problem could be the distances from a village to the venues, but the public transportation usually works fine in these kind of events.

I think some of the venues are old or need a little refurbishment. Maybe not a huge factor for the Pan Am Games?

 

About the OC, maybe in one of the bigger stadiums? But I really would love if they did something different.

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Now it's official: São Paulo is bidding to host the 2031 Pan American Games. I guess Rio's plans won't go any further?

 

@LuizGuilherme and @Laraja while São Paulo is a rich city with many venues, I would say they'll have much more work to be done than Rio in case they win the hosting rights. Anyway, I would love a multi-sport games in SP since I have family there - and they live pretty close to a subway station 

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With the support of the Brazilian Olympic Committee, there will be a "São Paulo house" in Santiago, where they should announce their plans in hosting the 2031 Pan American Games (source).

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flagbearers for the opening ceremony: Tokyo bronze medalists Fernando Scheffer (Swimming) and Luisa Stefani (Tennis).

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Lovely graphics.

 

 

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Apparently more than a thousand keys from the Pan American village were not identified with the corresponding department number. Kinda funny story, except for the volunteers who had to test the keys one by one 

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First brazilian athletes have arrived at the village, which indeed looks beautiful. Pictured, the Gymnastics team.

 

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32 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Yea I agree, and it looks like Rio could even step in for 2027. 

 

We went from the largest city in a country to the 4th largest for 2027. With the size of these games, I don't think small cities like Winnipeg or Barranquilla can host now. 

I don't know why Colombia didn't pick another city but I don't think Barranquilla will step down 

 

Rio already has a lot of the arenas done, but it would need another athletes village, which I guess isn't that hard to pull off.

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Brazil is going with 622 athletes, which I think ranks third after and ? 

 

Anyway, here some final adjustments in the Time Brasil building. From the little I've seen, I'm in love with the look of this village 

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

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8 hours ago, intoronto said:

There is no news from Winnipeg since 2021, and recently the city has been looking into the 2029 Junior Pan AM Games, don't think they are interested.

I guess if any city from  or would bid, they would be an instant favorite.

 

But I hope for a Pan in Rio, SP or even Buenos Aires. They're all great cities and I could attend 

 

 

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São Paulo has shown some interest in hosting the 2031 Pan American Games (source). As previously reported, Rio also has it in its plans (source).

 

That would be the 4th consecutive South American city to host, so probably other bids from Central/North America will be favored?

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1 hour ago, LuizGuilherme said:

Beach Soccer

Futsal

Beach Tennis

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Footvolley

Fistball (only if hosted in the south)

Beach Handball

 

And a top 5 in the medal Table 🤣

All things "Beach" + Futsal 

 

Spoiler

In reality I would say Beach Handball would be the most likely.

 

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1 hour ago, konig said:

2 : with Canada with B teams and athletes, Brazil is my favourite for the second place

3 : is the historial third country in Panamerican Games and will remain that place

I think  has a much better team now than in 2019, including A team in most sports. Of course there's Athletics, but that's a sport in which Brazil sucks even with the A team.

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Less than one month to go, should we do some medal table predictions?

 

As usual, USA is too far ahead of the field, with Canada and Brazil fighting for second. From what I've seen, Canada has a very strong team in many sports. Of course a reduced Athletics team can hurt their medal tally, but Brazil isn't that strong in this sport even with most of their best athletes. Given recent results in the Central American Games, I think Mexico has the edge over Colombia. Mexico was top 3 in Lima 2019 and definitely have the potential to be top 5 again.

 

Argentina is the one nation that I think that could spoil this top 5 (they were 5th in 2019), especially ahead of Colombia - which won more medals last year at the South American Games. Once a top sports nation, Cuba is declining in recent multi-sport competitions, but still could make top 7. Wouldn't be that surprising if Chile got a massive home advantage and got better than 8th (which is the same result they had in 2019). For 9th/10th, Ecuador and Venezuela are too close. Dominican Republic could finish ahead of both, though, just like it did in 2019. A former top 10 in their home Games, I don't think Peru will repeat the feat this time.

 

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Time is announcing some names for the Games.

 

In Athletics, we're going with 67 athletes, including world medalist Caio Bonfim and world indoor champion Darlan Romani (no Alison dos Santos).

 

In Tennis, Thiago Monteiro, Marcelo Demoliner and Gustavo Heider (Men's) and Olympic medalists Laura Pigossi and Luisa Stefani + Carolina Meligeni (Women's). The best ranked brazilians (Bia Haddad Maia and Thiago Wild) will not participate.

 

Judo will have 19 athletes, including Olympic medalists Daniel Cargnin, Rafael Silva, Rafaela Silva and Ketleyn Quadros. Boxing will have 13 names including Olympic medalists Beatriz Ferreira and Abner Teixeira. Brazil is also bringing their best in Equestrian and Table Tennis - which will have Bruna Alexandre as the first brazilian athlete to compete in both the Pan American Games and Para Pan in the same year.

 

 

Many teams have also been announced, and most of them (Basketball, Football, Volleyball) have athletes that play only in brazilian clubs. So I expect some competitive teams but Brazil isn't the favourite for any team sport gold.

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Brazil is going full force in Beach Volleyball with Duda/Ana Patrícia (World #1) and George/André (World #5).

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3 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Handball draws: https://twitter.com/PanamSports/status/1697740899575316723?s=20

In the men's tournament the loser of vs  will get  in semifinals which already will be a deciding match since the bronze medalist won't even have the chance to participate in the Olympic qualification tournaments.

 

For me  is slightly ahead for men's quota and is stronger on the women's side.

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I know they will give the women's football spot to a CONCACAF nation (Panama?), but I think they should give it to Brazil. Our team is the same level of those or worse...

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12 hours ago, Sindo said:

It was a very nice experience, in a country I would have probably never visited for tourism. I have met some very welcoming people, of course we have had a lot of limitations and could not leave the hotel alone. I have worked at the Women's Basketball tournaments, and in some other venues in the days Basketball did not play (two days in Athletics, one day in Table tennis).

Seems like it was a great experience! I wish someday I could visit countries outside of the typical tourism destinations.

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In Brazil, a famous YouTube channel (Cazé TV) and Canal Olímpico do Brasil will broadcast the event, which is great since both are free.

 

It will be the first PanAm Games to be broadcast in streaming only (I don't think SporTV has any interest but who knows).

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1 hour ago, intoronto said:

At one point Canada and USA had no routes to qualifying in baseball, and both nations usually get the short end of the stick in other sports as there is no equivalent CAC or South American Games.

Not really for team sports. There are plenty opportunities for and  to qualify, and even in some sports (Rugby Sevens, Water Polo) they are given a free pass. I agree that qualification systems shouldn't change, though, and the Baseball situation was messy to say at least.

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 will have 43 swimmers. It will be difficult to win 11 gold medals like in 2019, but is the best we have (minus Fratus).

 

Wrestling will have 10 athletes. After 3 medals in each of the last two editions, goal is to win 4 medals.

 

In Skateboarding, a very strong team with Pâmela Rosa/Rayssa Leal and Lucas Rabelo/Kelvin Hoefler (Street), Raicca Ventura and Augusto Akio (Park).

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 will have 43 swimmers. It will be difficult to win 11 gold medals like in 2019, but is the best we have (minus Fratus).

 

Wrestling will have 10 athletes. After 3 medals in each of the last two editions, goal is to win 4 medals.

 

In Skateboarding, a very strong team with Pâmela Rosa/Rayssa Leal and Lucas Rabelo/Kelvin Hoefler (Street), Raicca Ventura and Augusto Akio (Park).