Lima 2027: Steps taken to win Pan American Games spot with 28 votes | Banam Game | COP | Game-Total

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Lima has been selected as the venue for the 2027 Pan American Games. After the Banam Sports Council, 28 votes were cast for Peru's capital election. Lima will host its second Pan American Games in history

Lima's candidacy was presented by COP President Renzo Manyari, Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianson, Lima Mayor Rafael López Aliaga and athlete Eduardo Rome. Additionally, President Tina Polwart's dedication was shown via video.

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Today Lima can once again become the sports center of the continent. This morning Panam Sports is choosing the host of the 2027 Pan American Games and our capital has strong arguments to host this mega event for the second time.

See: “The feeling we have to win”: More than infrastructure, fundamentals of Lima 2027 candidacy

Lima will have forty minutes to convince Panam Sports members that this is the best way to host the 2027 Pan American Games, with the voices of Peruvian Olympic Committee President Renzo Manyari and Gustavo Adrianson. The recently appointed Prime Minister. Unfortunately, Carlos Zegarra, director of the Legacy Project, was unable to travel, but Lima will continue the event with his full support.

The voting process is virtual, but the fair will be held in person from the JW Marriott in Miami. At 8 am the function begins with the protocol part, then the presentation of each candidate begins in 40 minutes each – who will start is kept secret. Panam Sports members will follow the action in practice and have time to ask relevant questions.

“After the show, they send a link to each NOC's (National Olympic Committee) registered emails, you vote on that link and it counts,” Renzo Manyari explains to us. There are 41 member groups and the countries that have already organized the Pan American Games have a double vote, which is 52 votes (not counting Peru and Paraguay). “We need 27 votes to win,” the COP director summarizes.

It is more than relations or lobbying work, it is about presenting a good candidacy: having the infrastructure to guarantee a good event, the budget sufficient to maintain the level of the event and the authorities of the country and the city hand in hand with the sports program, and the Lima 2027 candidacy has achieved this in a remarkable way. After Lima 2019, the central government committed to setting up Bolivarians 2024 and they also approved that Ecuador passed Bolivarians 2025, which could not be implemented.

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What makes Asuncion different? “We have a great human team,” Carlos Zegarra tells us and Carlos Neuhaus, director of Lima 2019, said: “Lima 2019 has a qualified team that went to Santiago 2023 and Qatar 2022 and Tokyo 2020.” Those who worked on the organization of these events. It indicates.

Follow the voting live from Miami

But not only does Peru present itself to the Pan American Games to host a major event, it is not the end goal, but rather part of a fortress that leads the country to the development of sports, the discourse Banam encourages sports itself.. The strength of Asuncion is to see this possibility as the first step to progress in sports matters. They are seeking to become the second country of less than 7.5 million people to host the Pan American Games, as Puerto Rico did in 1979.

Today it is defined between the two options. Asuncion has been working on this candidacy for almost a year since last January in Lima, but with the confidence and experience to know how to make the best games in history.

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