THE THREE-YEAR COUNTDOWN TO THE SANTIAGO 2023 PAN AMERICAN GAMES BEGINS
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The Chilean capital of Santiago is preparing diligently to host the Pan American Games for the first time in the country’s history.
The Santiago 2023 Pan American Games will feature more than 6,800 athletes competing in 38 sports from October 20 to November 5, 2023.
SANTIAGO, CHILE (October 20, 2020) — The 19th edition of the largest multisport event in the Americas will begin in exactly three years when the Santiago 2023 Torch Relay concludes in Chile’s National Stadium by lighting the traditional Pan American Cauldron.
The Santiago 2023 Pan American Games will undoubtedly be the most competitive ever witnessed as the 41 countries of Americas’ Olympic Movement continue to develop their sporting programs to help athletes flourish. Santiago 2023 expects to surpass the record-breaking number of Olympic qualifiers offered at the Lima 2019 Pan Am Games.
These Games will follow the historic first Junior Pan American Games of Cali 2021 that will offer direct qualification to Santiago 2023, creating an unprecedented qualification path to the Olympic Games for thousands of young athletes throughout the Americas.
Chile’s beautiful capital city is already working enthusiastically to deliver the greatest Pan Am Games in history, with venue and infrastructure plans already coming to fruition with three years remaining until the Opening Ceremony.
Olympic Tokyo Website Features Clarence Hill
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The Olympic Tokyo 2020 website has highlighted Bermuda’s Clarence Hill, whose medal winning performance in 1976 gave the island the distinction of being the smallest nation in the world to win an Olympic medal.
A story in the Tokyo 2020 website said, “While winning an Olympic medal is a personal goal for thousands of athletes, for 24 nations it is a dream that has only ever come true once.
“Growing up as a troubled teenager in Newark, New Jersey, Clarence Hill diverted his energy from the streets to the ring.
“Moving back to Bermuda in 1972, he started his amateur boxing career at the Pembroke Youth Centre training under Stanley Trimm.
“From early on, Hill had dreamt of becoming “the heavyweight champion of Bermuda” and wanted “to win an Olympic medal”.
“At that time, Bermuda had never won an Olympic medal despite sending athletes to every Olympic Games since 1936 with the exception of Moscow 1980. The closest they came to medalling was at Tokyo 1964 when Bermuda finished fifth at the Dragon sailing event.
“Sadly, many didn’t believe in Hill’s dream of winning an Olympic medal, but the youngster, who was in his early 20′s when he took up boxing, knew he had the heart to do it and was going to prove them wrong.
“To date, Hill is the only Bermudian to win an Olympic medal and it made the small British Overseas Territory – the least populated nation [53,500 in 1976] to ever win a medal at the Summer Olympics.”
You can read the full story here on the Tokyo 2020 website.
Article & Story courtesy of BERNEWS
