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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 spo
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Chile To Host 2022 Pan American Cups (Field Hockey)
intoronto posted an article in Other Multi-Sport Games News
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 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 athle -
Vuokatti 2021 moved to December
Wojciech Nowakowski posted an article in Other Multi-Sport Games News
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 -
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 Ca