New Supervision of Panam Sports for Lima 2019

(ATR) President of Panam Sports, Neven Ilic, arrives in Lima together with experts in infrastructure, almost three months before the opening of the Games.

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(ATR) "Dress me slowly I'm in a hurry". This well-known phrase attributed to different characters in history, fits accurately today in the preparations of the Pan-American and Parapan Am Games of Lima

The president of Panam Sports, Neven Ilic, will make his tenth visit to the Peruvian capital so far in 2019.

Ilic will be accompanied by the Secretary General, Ivar Sisniega, and the President of the Coordination Commission for Lima 2019, Keith Joseph from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Also part of this new inspection are the members of the Infrastructures Monitoring Commission headed by the president of the Chilean Olympic Committee, Miguel Angel Mújica. He is joined by the president of the Panamanian Olympic Committee, Camilo Amado, the secretary general of the Haitian Olympic Committee, Alain Jean Pierre , and the President of the Softball Federation of the Dominican Republic, Garibaldy Bautista.

All members like Illic are engineers.

Bautista is the newest member of the team. It is his second international appointment following his work for the Infrastructure Commission of the World Baseball and Softball Confederation. .Bautista is also the head of mission of his country for the 2019 Pan Ams.

The delegation of Panam Sports arrives in Lima in moments of effervescence of deliveries of new facilities and remodeling of others, on the margin that does not stop being a tense moment for the calendar.

Panam Sports has also designated a "permanent observer" in Lima, Argentine expert Mario Cilenti.

Two weeks ago the president of the Organizing Committee, Carlos Neuhaus, updated in detail to the Executive Committee of Panam Sports at its meeting in San Jose, Costa Rica. Neuhas noted on the satisfactory state of future venues and also assured that according to a recent survey "the 69% of Peruvians know about the Games and are excited. "

The president of the Peruvian Olympic Committee (COP), Pedro del Rosario, confirmed to Around The Rings the new visit of the continental sport leaders.

"They are always welcome in this work as a whole and as a team. We all strive in the same direction," he said.

In moments of his statements, Del Rosario ended a day of analysis with presidents of national federations of the first lists of athletes to the Organizing Committee.

April 26 will be the deadline for the numerical registration of the delegations and June 30 the deadline for the nominal registration by the 41 NOCs to the COPAL.

"We trust that Peru will have a historic participation," said Del Rosario.

The Pan American Games will open on July 26 with an expected record attendance of more than 6,000 athletes from 41 nations.

The 39 sports programs will award Olympic qualifications for the first time in 23 disciplines for the Tokyo 2020 Games.

Reported by Miguel Hernandez.

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