Pan American Games 2023

[hckošice 14,822]

- One bronze in M Modern Pentathlon (2 Olympics Quotas, one per gender in this, Big hat off especially for the 16 years old María Sol Naranjo, who became the youngest athlete to qualify for Paris 2024 now)

- Huge disater for Tamara Salazar, with a Lumbar injury forced the reigning Olympic silver medalist to leave the Weightlifting -81kg competition before her first attempt and resulted in a heartbroken imediate transport to the near Hospital... Fingers crossed that everything will end well

- but also a secured medal in M 92kg Boxing thanks Julio Castillo win in the quarterfinal this Monday

 

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Medals of the Day

 

Andrés Torres,

Modern Pentathlon M Individual Bronze

 

 

Edited October 24, 2023 by hckošice

[intoronto 5,638]

Rowing announcer thinks they are in Peru 

[Topicmaster1010 4,166]

 The hosts start off the day with a gold in rowing!

[ManuCHIL 155]

and another silver now for chile :D 

[Olympian1010 7,971]

There’s no streaming of the racquetball finals 

[ManuCHIL 155]

second gold for chile in rowing!!! I'm so happy :D!!

[George_D 1,205]

i didnt expect Chile to be so good in rowing

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

10 hours ago, intoronto said:

"as the Pan Am Games are rumored to be moving to a new program to mirror the Olympic program starting in 2027."

This has been a thing for a while. 2023 was suppose to be the Olympic program plus a couple of extra sports. Ultimately it ended up with only bodybuilding (which was added in 2019) missing out.

 

I think what will happen is the host must include the Olympic program and the other sports are optional. The good news for the non-Olympic sports is they are relatively cheap to host. Baseball/Softball is obviously expensive, but after that roller sports would be the next most expensive sport.

[vinipereira 3,240]

17 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

This has been a thing for a while. 2023 was suppose to be the Olympic program plus a couple of extra sports. Ultimately it ended up with only bodybuilding (which was added in 2019) missing out.

 

I think what will happen is the host must include the Olympic program and the other sports are optional. The good news for the non-Olympic sports is they are relatively cheap to host. Baseball/Softball is obviously expensive, but after that roller sports would be the next most expensive sport.

Don't know if the hosts have any saying in this, but if the Games are hosted by Brazil in the near future, we probably would get rid of many non-Olympic sports.

[intoronto 5,638]

43 minutes ago, vinipereira said:

Don't know if the hosts have any saying in this, but if the Games are hosted by Brazil in the near future, we probably would get rid of many non-Olympic sports.

Racquetball for sure.

 

I wonder if cricket will be held in Colombia?