People perform traditional Paraguayan dances during an exhibition in an area where the II ASU 2025 Junior Pan American Games are taking place this Friday, in Luque (Paraguay).
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The city of Assumption was chosen this Friday as the headquarters of the Pan American Games 2031in an extraordinary general assembly of Panam Sports, the 41 Olympic Committees of the continent held in Santiago, Chile.
The capital of Paraguay won the election to host the XXI edition of the Pan American Gameswith a total of 28 of the 52 votes counted in a process carried out in person.
Asunción managed to host for the first time in continental competition as adults, after having demonstrated their organizational capacity with the development this year of the Junior Pan American Games.
“I don't know how to thank you for the support received. I know that Rio was a great candidate, The competition forces us all to be better, we had a good competition,” said Camilo Pérez, president of the Paraguayan Olympic Committee.
Paraguay offered within its proposal to build a Villa Panamericana, an athletics stadium and a new Arena within the Asunción Olympic Parkin addition to having the venues used in the junior event last August.
Both headquarters presented their candidacies before the Assembly for 40 minutes, first they did so Rio-Nerterói and Luego Asunciónan order that was established in a draw previously carried out by the Executive Committee.
After the exuberant Brazilian promotion, the Paraguayans presented technical problems with the audio of the video of their proposal, to which Panam Sports responded with an apology indicating that in the rehearsals everything had worked.
Paraguay appealed to emotions with an animated video that suggested the boost that hosting the careers and dreams of its athletes would mean, offered guarantees of administrative transparency and the support of having been chosen to host a FIFA World Cup match in 2030.
The election was carried out with the same technology used by the International Olympic Committee in their processes, which is provided by the company Lumi Global, to count the votes.
The 53 votes were distributed among the 41 Olympic Committees and 12 more ballots, which by statute of the organization, are awarded to each of the countries that have hosted the Pan American Games: United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Argentina.
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