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Panamsports has officially added Basque Pelota, Bowling, Racquetball, Squash and Sport Climbing to the Santiago 2023 sports program. This means a total of 38 sports will be contested at the games, one less than in Lima 2019. These sports were originally left off the program, when it was announced back in March 2020. Felipe De Pablo, Executive Director of Santiago 2023 stated that: “It is an extremely robust and attractive sports program, reflecting tradition and new trends. We want to fill the sports venues, so that Chile feels proud of the event that we are going to offer. The sports program is one more step towards that goal ”. Sport Climbing will also be making its Pan American Games debut. A total of nine countries from the region competed at the last Continental Championships in early 2020 in Los Angeles. Although the sports program is now finalized, the event program is not. It is understood that Panamsports would like to finalize this as soon as possible. The games are scheduled to be held October 20 to November 5, 2023, the latest in a calendar year the games have been held.
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Chile To Host 2022 Pan American Cups (Field Hockey)
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The Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) has announced Santiago, Chile as the host of the men's and women's field hockey Pan American Cups. Both events are scheduled to be held between January 20-30, 2022 at the newly built National Hockey Stadium in Santiago. The venue is also scheduled to host the 2023 Pan American Games field hockey competition. Santiago last held the men's competition in 2009, while this will be the first women's Pan American Cup staged in Santiago. Argentina are the defending champions in both tournaments. The Pan American Cups are a qualifier for the aforementioned Pan American Games. The top two countries not qualified after the South American Games and the Central American and Caribbean Games have concluded, will qualify for the respective Pan American Games competition. More information on the qualification system is available here.-
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The International World Games Association's (IWGA) Annual General Meeting looked a lot different this year than in years past. Instead of meeting in the Olympic capital of Lausanne, the IWGA met virtually on Friday November 6th to discuss a variety of topics concerning the future of the IWGA, and their International Federations (IFs). The biggest change was seen in the athlete quota cap being raised from 4,200 to 5,000 athletes. This is no doubt a move by the IWGA to include more sports and events into their programme. Earlier this summer, the IWGA suffered some blowback from athletes and the public after they released their competition programme for Birmingham 2022. Several traditional sports such as Men's Boules and Trampoline were left off the programme, and other sports saw their male quotas cut. By expanding the total overall quota it is the hope for the World Games to expand the games with new sports, and new events; such as the possibility of adding para sports at the World Games, with Wheelchair Rugby set to feature in Birmingham next summer. The invitational sports programme is also set to undergo some changes. Currently, the Local Organizing Committe can select up to five sports of their choosing to be "invitational sports" at their games. The invitational sports do count towards the medal count, but it is a great way to attract spectators and make money by bringing in sports that the local population is familiar with. At the last World Games in 2017, the Wroclaw Organizing Committee selected American Football, Indoor Rowing, Kickboxing, and Speedway. American Football and Speedway dominated the ticket sales and Kickboxing is now on the official programme. According to the IWGA, this new system will be "more flexible" and will most likely consist of a dozen sports that a host city can select from, or these sports will be on a rotating basis. The IWGA also set new protocols for full time members. According to sources, only IFs that are members of the Association of IOC Recognised International Sports Federations (ARIDF) can become new fulltime members, with current IWGA members already being grandfathered in. This new rule opens up the door for sports such as American Football and Cricket to gain full membership with the IWGA. However, IF's that are not members of the IWGA or ARIDF can still vie for spots on the reformed invitational programme. The idea of multi-sport games continues to change, and the IWGA continues to change with it. However, their older brother, the IOC, continues to dwell in the past. The sports played at the World Games are modern and exciting as several sports have already "graduated" to the Olympic programme such as: karate, softball, sport climbing, and breaking. Also, the IWGA continues to insist that their host cities do not build new facilities for the games. This is something that the IOC continues to struggle with, and has led to a reduction of viable host cities, along with clashes with tax paying citizens of potential host cities. With the dates, programme, and athlete quota already set for Birmingham 2022, these new changes are expected to be first seen at Chengdu 2025. Sources: https://www.theworldgames.org/news/The-World-Games-17/Radical-new-strategy-approved-at-first-virtual-AGM-2058 https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1100311/world-games-virtual-meeting
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The coronavirus pandemic forces more and more multi-sport games to be postponed. This includes also European Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Vuokatti, which was to take place next February. The organizing committee decided to move the event to December. The competition for athletes between 14 and 18 years of age will take place on 11-18 December 2021. With keeping it in an original year of organizing the Festival, it gives the chances to participate for the same athletes, as the February date, despite some of them might be aiming for the competition of a higher age category in the 2021/2022 winter season, which features also 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The decision of Vuokatti 2021 organizers follows the postponmenet of the summer edition of 2021 EYOF, which will be held in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia in 2022 to avoid clash with the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to be held in Summer 2021. Another competition planned for the next winter, 2021 Winter Universiade in Lucern was also postponed by FISU with the new date still not being announced.
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The Government of Colombia, led by President Ivan Doque, confirmed the country’s support for hosting the 2021 Junior Pan American Games today. The news was delivered by Colombia’s Minister of Sport, Ernesto Lucerna Barrero, to Panam Sports President, Neven Ilic, during the Virtual Meeting of the Organizing Committee of the Cali-Valle 2021 Junior Pan American Games. The official dates of the Games were confirmed for September 9 to 19, 2021. It was also announced that Cali 2021 will be open to young athletes between the ages of 14 and 22. The sports program for Cali 2021 will consist of 27 sports; 23 of which are core sports at the Summer Olympic Games. The following is a list of sports included on the sports program for Cali 2021: Aquatics (Diving, Swimming and Artistic Swimming), Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Basketball 3x3, Bowling, Boxing, Canoeing, Cycling (BMX, Mountain, Road and Track), Fencing, Gymnastics (Artistic, Rhythmic and Trampoline), Handball, Judo, Karate, Modern Pentathlon, Roller Sports (Artistic, Speed and Skateboarding), Rowing, Sailing, Shooting Sport (Pistol and Rifle), Squash, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Tennis, Triathlon, Volleyball (Beach and Indoor), Weightlifting and Wrestling (Freestyle and Greco-Roman). Additionally, in order to ensure the best young talent throughout the region participates in the Games, Panam Sports is offering qualification to the 2023 Pan American Games to the gold medalists in every individual sport. Neven Ilic, Panam Sports President, was happy with the confirmation of the 2021 Junior Pan American Games, commenting “With the postponement of the Dakar 2022 Youth Olympic Games, Cali 2021 will be the most important and massive sporting event in the world for young people in the coming years. I am sure it will be a spectacular sports festival that will serve as a launching point for our next generation of athletes and that Cali and the Colombians, as always, will be fantastic hosts.” He added, “I want to sincerely thank the Colombian Government, President Duque, Minister Lucerna, Valle del Cauca Governor Clara Luz Roldan, Mayor of Cali Ivan Ospina and the Colombian Olympic Committee for trusting us as an organization, and for the commitment and passion they have shown to youth and sport throughout the continent.” It is expected that more than 3,500 athletes from 41 countries will compete at Cali 2021.
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