Pan American Games 2027

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On 8/3/2024 at 4:53 AM, intoronto said:

Apparently Lima has a cricket club

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_Cricket_and_Football_Club

Sure, like all the countries where  built railways, lighthouses & sewage systems.

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Final sports program should be determined on Oct 3-4 in Paraguay (Panamsports General Assembly)

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Looks like we have our first QS (field hockey)

https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/org.panamhockey.strapi/Qualification_PAG_2027_ENG_dffd0fa50f.pdf

 

Some slight changes versus 2023, 2019 and 2015.

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These games will officially be held from July 16 - August 1

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Final sports program: https://www.panamsports.org/en/news-sport/panam-sports-defines-36-sports-for-lima-2027/

 

In: Cricket

Out: Bowling, Racquetball, Breaking ( @Joshfavourite sport dropped )

 

As I understand it, the other LA2028 sports (football, lacrosse) did not have enough federations to qualify to be a sport (min 20). So all the main program Olympic sports will be held.

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There goes almost all of   chances for medals. I hope they reconsider racquetball.

 

Did the bowling venue from 2019 not survive? The sport doesn't bring much revenue, but it also doesn't cost much to host if the bowling alley is still in place.

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50 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

There goes almost all of   chances for medals. I hope they reconsider racquetball.

 

Did the bowling venue from 2019 not survive? The sport doesn't bring much revenue, but it also doesn't cost much to host if the bowling alley is still in place.

It's more so to do with keeping sports down to a max of 36. I think this was a stated goal sometime post Santiago 2023.

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17 minutes ago, intoronto said:

It's more so to do with keeping sports down to a max of 36. I think this was a stated goal sometime post Santiago 2023.

Makes sense.

 

Looks like basketball was also cut, the only core Olympic sport not to be held at the games.

 

So we have 30/31 core Olympic sports, 3/5 LA28 sports (Baseball/Softball, Cricket, Squash) and 3 Pan Am sports (Basque Pelota, Karate, Water Skiing).

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7 hours ago, intoronto said:

Final sports program: https://www.panamsports.org/en/news-sport/panam-sports-defines-36-sports-for-lima-2027/

 

In: Cricket

Out: Bowling, Racquetball, Breaking ( @Joshfavourite sport dropped )

 

As I understand it, the other LA2028 sports (football, lacrosse) did not have enough federations to qualify to be a sport (min 20). So all the main program Olympic sports will be held.

Yeah, cause cricket is so popular outside the Caribbean, which in turn field a sole team 

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9 minutes ago, mrv86 said:

Yeah, cause cricket is so popular outside the Caribbean, which in turn field a sole team 

They have 20+ federations however, + other countries like Canada/USA probably voted to include since its on the Olympic program. 

Curious to see what an 8 team tournament would be made up of for each gender. I am all for it if it gives the smaller Caribbean countries chances to qualify a team such as  and