Central American and Caribbean Games 2023

[Fer GUA 576]

I would have thought that El Salvador would be doing a little better than 9 medals total at this point. with the advantage to have athletes in almost all sports and being local, at least 20 bronce and silver. Maybe this second week they will do better, with sailing, athletics, karate, TKD, archery and badminton.

 

That gold medal in Double Bowling men was for , the mexicans at last minute claim it, sooo close.  I think  will end with only 12 or so gold medals, about half from last edition, a change in the athletes generation, very young people, doing good so far.

[intoronto 6,409]

and  all qualify in baseball, the 4 countries with the largest team sizes in Lima

 

No  looks likely they will have the biggest regression in team size from Lima.

 

No  as well, meaning the last gold and silver medalists from 2011, 2015 and 2019 will not compete!!

 

Recent press releases say top 4 qualify here, but earlier it said top 3, so not entirely sure this is accurate

Edited July 1, 2023 by intoronto

[JoshMartini007 2,765]

16 minutes ago, intoronto said:

and  all qualify in baseball, the 4 countries with the largest team sizes in Lima

 

No  looks likely they will have the biggest regression in team size from Lima.

 

No  as well, meaning the last gold and silver medalists from 2011, 2015 and 2019 will not compete!!

 

Recent press releases say top 4 qualify here, but earlier it said top 3, so not entirely sure this is accurate

Baseball is probably one of the toughest sports to qualify in at the Pan American Games, especially when you include a host who doesn't care about the sport and force in a South American representative that's not Colombia/Venezuela.

 

Honestly you could expand it to 12 teams and still have a high quality tournament. The issue of course is hosts don't want to accommodate 100 more athletes for a single event plus you can't exactly justify 12 teams in women's softball.

[Olympian1010 8,230]

It’s raining pretty steady at the velodrome from the looks of things. I’m not sure there will be any track cycling finals tonight 

Edited July 2, 2023 by Olympian1010

[JoshMartini007 2,765]

Did they award the skeet team medals even though we are only 3/5 done the individual event?

[Olympian1010 8,230]

 swept racquetball. It’s the second sport they’ve swept at the Games.

[Olympian1010 8,230]

Chevrier  snagged the bronze medal in men’s laser. I guess those universality quotas for the Olympics are starting to have an impact on the program 

Lettsome  won the battle for the Pan American Games quota. He becomes his country’s first athlete qualified for the Games.

 

Edited July 2, 2023 by Olympian1010

[PHI2019 309]

Baseball final between Cuba and Mexico has been cancelled. Will the two teams be sharing the gold medal?

 

Edit: Gold medal went to Mexico on account of its win over Cuba earlier in the tournament

Edited July 2, 2023 by PHI2019

[Olympian1010 8,230]

I’ve never seen a five entry madison before, but hey, first time for everything 

[Fer GUA 576]

1 gold, 1 silver 1 bronze for  at the beginning of Athletics, not bad. But that might be all for Guatemala in Athletics.