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Panam Sports (officially English: Pan American Sports Organization and Spanish: Organización Deportiva Panamericana; Portuguese: Organização Desportiva Pan-Americana; French: Organisation Sportive PanAméricaine) [1] [2] is an international organization which represents the current 41 National Olympic Committees of the American continent.
e. The Pan American Games (known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The competition is held among athletes from nations of the Americas, every four years in the year before the Summer Olympic Games.
Pan American Games on television. ABC was the first American television network to broadcast the Pan American Games in 1963, when they devoted one episode of their Wide World of Sports [1] anthology program to the games. They doubled their coverage to two episodes of the show in 1967. CBS then bought the rights to the 1975 [2] and 1979 Games [3 ...
The Association of Panamerican Athletics ( APA; Spanish: Asociación Panamericana de Atletismo) is a new regional confederation governing body of athletics for national governing bodies and multi-national federations within Northern, Central, and South America, and the Caribbean, replacing the Pan American Athletics Commission. [1]
Fox Sports was a group of channels available in Latin America and operated by The Walt Disney Company Latin America, a unit of the Disney International Operations. The network was focused on sports -related programming including live and pre-recorded event broadcasts, sports talk shows and original programming, available throughout Latin America .
Athletics at the Pan American Games. No. of events. 48 (men: 24; women: 24) Since its first edition held in 1951, athletics events have been competed at the Pan American Games. The events list follows the Olympic model as the Games are an IOC sanctioned competition.
Football (soccer) at the Pan American Games has been included in every Pan American Games as a men's competition sport, since the first edition of the multi-sports event held in Buenos Aires, Argentine in 1951. The competition is organized by the Pan American Sports Organization . So as to avoid competition with the World Cup, FIFA have ...
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