(ATR) Buenos Aires, Argentina and Santiago, Chile will go head-to-head to win the rights to host the 2023 Pan American Games.
The Pan American Sports Organization announced the two candidates on Feb. 1 in a letter sent to the 41 National Olympic Committees of PASO and seen by Around the Rings.
The bids were submitted by Gerardo Werthein and Neven Ilic, presidents of the Argentinean and Chilean Olympic Committees respectively.
The next milestone in the bidding process comes on April 30 when a payment of $50,000 is due to PASO leadership along with a completed application. Once the documents are received, each city will begin campaigning to win the votes of their fellow PASO members.
The election of the host city will take place in Lima, Peru at the end of 2017. ATR is told there is no set date for the 55th PASO General Assembly where the vote will take place.
It is likely the assembly would come after the September IOC Session where the host city of the 2024 Summer Olympics will be chosen.
Buenos Aires hosted the inaugural Pan Am Games in 1951 while Chile has never hosted the event. A bid from Santiago was narrowly beat by Lima’s bid to host the 2019 edition of the event.
Written by Kevin Nutley
Forgeneral comments or questions, click here.
25 Years at #1: Your best source of news about theOlympics is AroundTheRings.com, for subscribersonly.
Últimas Noticias
Utah’s Olympic venues an integral part of the equation as Salt Lake City seeks a Winter Games encore
Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation chief of sport development Luke Bodensteiner says there is a “real urgency to make this happen in 2030”. He discusses the mission of the non-profit organization, the legacy from the 2002 Winter Games and future ambitions.
IOC president tells Olympic Movement “we will again have safe and secure Olympic Games” in Beijing
Thomas Bach, in an open letter on Friday, also thanked stakeholders for their “unprecedented” efforts to make Tokyo 2020 a success despite the pandemic.
Boxing’s place in the Olympics remains in peril as IOC still unhappy with the state of AIBA’s reform efforts
The IOC says issues concerning governance, finance, and refereeing and judging must be sorted out to its satisfaction. AIBA says it’s confident that will happen and the federation will be reinstated.
IOC president details Olympic community efforts to get Afghans out of danger after Taliban return to power
Thomas Bach says the Afghanistan NOC remains under IOC recognition, noting that the current leadership was democratically elected in 2019. But he says the IOC will be monitoring what happens in the future. The story had been revealed on August 31 in an article by Miguel Hernandez in Around the Rings
North Korea suspended by IOC for failing to participate in Tokyo though its athletes could still take part in Beijing 2022
Playbooks for Beijing 2022 will ”most likely” be released in October, according to IOC President Thomas Bach.
