BACKGROUND
The 2011 games take place in Guadalajara,
Mexico.
The Pan American Games are held every four years. In 2007 the
games were hosted in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil. The next games take place in 2011 in
Guadalajara,
Mexico.
Guadalajara
2011 Pan American Games
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), created the Pan
American Games to help make the American countries more competitive.
The first Pan American Games opened on Feb. 25, 1951, in Buenos
Aires, with 2,513 athletes from 21 countries. The last games
took place in 2003 games in the Dominican Republic. Click here
for details.
The organization governing the Games was renamed the Pan American
Sports Organization (PASO) in 1955 and is currently made up
of 42 nations of North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean.
Headquarters are in Mexico
City.
A BRIEF HISTORY
1951 Buenos
Aires, Argentina
1955 Mexico City,
Mexico
1959 Chicago,
United States
1963 Sao
Paulo, Brazil
1967 Winnipeg, Canada
1971 Cali, Colombia
1975 Mexico City,
Mexico - these games were scheduled to take place in Chile,
but shifted to Mexico after the assassination of President Salvador
Allende.
1979 San Juan, Puerto Rico
1983 Caracas, Venezuela
1987 Indianapolis,
United States
1991 Havana, Cuba
1995 Mar Del Plata, Argentina
1999 Winnipeg, Canada
2003 Dominican Republic
2007 Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil
2011 Guadalajara,
Mexico
REFERENCES
Rio
2007
Pan
American Sports Organization - Wikipedia
Posters
from the Pan American Games, 1951-1999
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