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Hi folks! Here I'm at Santiago de Chile. I've been to athletics, gymnastics and field hockey. Sadly I saw not a single Uruguayan competitor. The Estadio Nacional has a white coat of paint, but is otherwise in bad shape. The rhythmic gymnastics venue looks pretty, but accessibility is bad and there were roof leaks. The field hockey field is fine. However I missed a full quarter of Arg-Can trying to buy two drinks, as the venue had just two payment machines and one didn't work - it would have been much faster to walk 150m to the fan zone and return. After I got the drinks, the main grandstand was full. I walked to the north stands, where the net made it impossible to take photos. On top of that, a rather rude volunteer didn't let me take photos from the corner, despite being 5m above the field. Nothing unexpected I guess. Let's cross finger for tomorrow at La Pintana...

wins bronze in women's triple jump, 30 NOC's and the independent athlete team with medals now.

Which means… gets a bronze medal

DSQ from in women's 400m Hurdles and gets gold

Daniel Nascimento, a favourite for a medal in the 10,000m, got stuck in traffic and didn't arrive in time for the race

Claudia Laos wins bronze in women’s kata karate!

Men's Kite quotas: Tiger Tyson Victor Bolaños Lopez Women's Kite quotas: Catalina Turienzo Emily Bugeja

Canada wins bronze in the team artistic swimming event

Mariah Millen/Alexandra Ten Hove win silver in women’s 49er FX!

Justin Barnes/Will Jones win bronze in men’s 49er, finishing ahead of second ranked North American nation Mexico thus securing us an Olympic quota!

Just found out Chile will play the women's football final without a natural Goalkeeper because the two they had have been called back by their european clubs. They knew Endler was leaving but were confident the substitute would be granted permission to stay but nope. Incredible mismanagement from the coach.

Mexico with 41 Golds and just two away of surpassing the All time best gold medal haul including home Games that is 42 That will come once Pelote Basque gives the gold medal rain on saturday/sunday

There are many songs that remind me of my brother and my sister who passed so I will just post a couple. This song reminds me of my older sister. She was a big fan of Kylie when she first came out and she bought the album on cassette. She would play the album in our kitchen over and over. She had me and the rest of my brothers and sisters dancing to the locomotion, very fond memories And this song reminds me of my brother for a completely different reason. It is not a song he liked, in fact I am not sure if he ever got to hear the song. It reminds me of him because at the time of his passing and the weeks just after, I spent a lot of time in my teenage bedroom listening to music and this song was all over the air waves at the time and every time I hear the song it brings me right back to that time and how I was feeling.

Day #1 Medallists women's -48kg Gold: Shirine Boukli Silver: Catarina Costa Bronze: Laura Martinez Abelenda & Sabina Giliazova women's -52kg Gold: Amandine Buchard Silver: Distria Krasniqi Bronze: Chelsie Giles & Mascha Ballhaus women's -57kg Gold: Daria Kurbonmamadova Silver: Marica Perisic Bronze: Nora Gjakova & Sarah Leonie Cysique men's -60kg Gold: Luka Mkheidze Silver: Dilshot Khalmatov Bronze: Francisco Garrigòs & Romain Valadier Picard men's -66kg Gold: Denis Vieru Silver: David Garcia Torne Bronze: Walide Khyar & Bogdan Iadov

Women’s team sabre advances to the gold medal match with a 45-39 win over Mexico!

Men’s team foil and women’s team sabre both advance to the semifinals!

Just 7 more golds to tie the non-home record. It'll be fun seeing if they can get there.

Sen Masao - Kitaguni no Haru Kitaguni no Haru released in 1977 is one of the most popular enka songs in Japan. The song was covered by various singer in the Sinosphere under various title. This song is a very special song to my late father, although what he listened to is a cover version in Chinese called Rong Shu Xia (Under the Banyan Tree) by Yu Tian [see spoiler] and he is unaware that the song is originally a Japanese song . I'm choosing the original version for the sake of giving homage to the original singer. Since I was a kid I listened to this a lot because my father would play the CD early in the morning and maybe this is one of the factors that gave me a soft spot for Japanese enka/Korean trot (and perhaps contributing to my music taste). My father was hospitalized a few years back due to brain hemorrhage and passed away within a month. Before his passing, I brought a music player and played this tune a few times whenever I visited him in the hospital. Well... it certainly brings back memories and I will be glad if you liked this too.

Canada with 3 gold medals in 20 mins this morning in Canoeing so far. Up to 40 golds now

Semifinals v. v.

With 55 gold medals, this is now best result ever at the Pan American Games

Surprising, but in all honesty this was a fight to see which team will lose to in the final.

Just when I thought these Pan American Games couldn’t be any worse for Canada. 13-12 loss to Brazil in the men’s waterpolo semifinals…

Canada defeat United States 3-2 to win bronze in men’s field hockey, also booking themselves a ticket to the Olympic Qualifying Tournament!

Elizabeth Townsend qualifies for the 800m final.

Breaking is already cringe and it hasn't even started .Good riddance after 2024

wins its first ever Pan American Games medal, becomes the 33rd NOC to win a medal here and breaks the record for most countries at one edition to win a medal!

Big event of the weekend is the New York marathon on Sunday on ES/D+. On the undercard on Saturday, the US 5km Road Racing Championships. https://www.usatf.tv/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=45365&mgroup_event_id=2519&year=2023&do=videos&video_id=367317

After two rounds in golf, Papineau is in 2nd on the men's side while Sharp is in 3rd tied for second on the women's side. I didn't notice the actual scores!

becomes the 32nd country to win a medal, with Tiger Tyson taking silver in sailing

After day one of the men’s singles ranking round in bowling, Michel Hupe leads by 78 points over the second ranked athlete from Costa Rica. Francois Lavoie 214 points back in third, but the scores are really tight.

Why would they? If the EU was one country they'd just pick the best athletes. The United States does not ensure equal representation across all states, they just pick the best.

Men's 49er quotas: Hernán Umpierre/Fernando Diz William Jones/Justin Barnes

Men's foil through to the finals, with a close win over Brazil.

Men’s team foil advances to the gold medal match, after defeating Brazil 45-41!

CAN-USA tied in softball in the 3rd inning!

Huge comeback for Schnell in the first match of the men's team squash game. Down 0-2 in sets, comes back to win 3-2 (and dominates set 5)!

I just cried with Geovanna's performance in Rhythmic Gymnastics. Such a hard working gymnast that almost qualified for the next Olympics, and now finally gets a medal in the Pan Am Games

Women's squash team will earn at least a bronze as they go to the semis.

Bronze for Jensen in the Women's C-1 200m

And now 3! Alix Plomteux and Craig Spence win gold in the C-2 500

Make it 2! Simon McTavish/Ian Gaudet (who isn't on the A team) win gold in the K-2 500!

Michelle Russell starts the day off with a gold in the women's K-1 500m!

10 M Rifle M 10 M Rifle W 10 M Pistol M 10 M Pistol W 25 M Pistol W Skeet M Skeet W

Nossa, achei bem lindo esse momento

Man, those were some real “nailbitter” quarterfinals

And 2 more golds in athletics! Perfect day for !!

without the same luck of the men's competition, now losing in a shoot-out to . Final vs favourite on saturday.

wins their first gold medal of the Games in bowling. It was a good day for the smaller NOCs.

No jinxing!