2023 Pan American Games Opening Ceremony

The 2023 Pan American Games ( es, Juegos Panamericanos de 2023, links=no), officially the XIX Pan American Games and commonly known as Santiago 2023, is a forthcoming international multi-sport event governed by the Panam Sports Organization, scheduled to be held in Santiago, Chile from 20 October to 5 November 2023. These are the first Pan American Games to be held in Chile, and the eighth to be held in South America.

The games are scheduled to be held in 39 venues across in the Santiago Metropolitan Region and three other regions of Chile. The Pan American Games and the 2023 Parapan American Games were organized by the Santiago Organizing Committee for the 2023 Pan and Parapan American Games.

Bidding process

Two bids were submitted for the 2023 Pan American Games. Santiago, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina both submitted bids. On February 1, 2017, the Pan American Sports Organization (now Panam Sports) announced the two cities as the official bids. Buenos Aires withdrew their bid in April 2017 due to not having the necessary finances or logistics to host this event and the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Host city election

Santiago was unanimously elected as the host city at the ANOC General Assembly in Prague on November 4, 2017. This will mark the first time Chile hosts the Pan American Games. Santiago was initially awarded the right to host the 1975 and later 1987 Pan American Games, but withdrew as host both times due to financial and political problems. Most recently, Santiago was a candidate for the 2019 Pan American Games but lost to Lima.

Development and preparation

Financing

The budget for the games is $507 million USD, with $170 million reserved for the building of ten new sporting venues and the upgrade of six arenas. The budget is about 36% of what was spent for the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada and 50% of the last Pan American Games in 2019, in Lima, Peru.

Venues

Various venues across Santiago and various other cities will be used for the games, including Viña del Mar, Valparaíso and Algarrobo. In March 2022, the first venue for the games was officially inaugurated: the field hockey stadium on the National Stadium Grounds.

In June 2022, organizers revealed the final venue plan consisting of 41 competition venues. 39 will be used for the Games, with the other two being used exclusively for the 2023 Parapan American Games. The venues span four regions of the country: Santiago, Valparaíso, O'Higgins and Biobío.

Athletes Village

In December 2021, a ceremony was held to lay the first brick for the village. The village is expected to cost approximately $100 million USD, and will consist of 1,345 apartments. After the games, the village will be converted to social housing. The village is being built in the Cerrillos Bicentennial Park community of Santiago.

The Games

Participating National Olympic Committees

All 41 nations who are members of the Pan American Sports Organization are expected to compete.

Sports

A total of 39 sports will be contested at the games. In March 2020, Panam Sports confirmed the sports program would consist of the 28 Olympic sports plus 4 PanAmerican Sports baseball/softball, karate, roller sports (artistic, speed and skateboarding), water skiing, and surfing as optional sport leaving the possibility of more sports being added if no new infrastructure costs were added. In December 2020,another five sports were added to the program:as the PanAmerican Games charter determines: 4 more regional sports are added: basque pelota, bowling, racquetball and squash,along the sport climbing. Sport climbing and skateboarding will be making their debut appearances at the Pan American Games as due calendar and infrastructure problems they were not added to the Lima 2019 program. On June 24, 2022, the sport of breaking was added to the sport program. This will mark the sport's debut at the Pan American Games, and will serve as a Pan-American qualifier for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. After making its debut at the last edition of the games, bodybuilding will not be contested at these games.

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Media

Broadcasting

In February 2022, Mediapro was announced as the host broadcaster for the games. All sports and disciplines will be televised live, for the first time in the history of the Pan American Games. The cost of producing the feeds will be approximately $11.8 million USD. A total of 1,900 hours of competition will be aired, an increase of 700 from the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. In September 2022, TVN was named as the official broadcaster of the games in Chile.

Marketing

Logo and slogan

The official logo for the games was unveiled on July 17, 2019, at the Centro de Alto Rendimiento CAR. Meanwhile, the slogan of the games "Dream, Play, Win" (Spanish: "Soñar, Jugar, Ganar") was unveiled in February 2022. Organizers chose the slogan because it "speaks to the experience of every athlete young and old".

Mascot

A public poll was held online between in August 2021 to choose a mascot for the Games. Five options, representing species native to Chile were the options: ''Fiu'', a many-colored rush tyrant; ''Pewü'', a pine nut from the Araucaria tree; ''Chitama'', a runner lizard from the Atacama Region; ''Juanchi'', a penguin; and ''Santi'', a mythical winged South American puma. On October 16, 2021, ''Fiu'' was chosen as the official mascot of Santiago 2023.

Sponsorship

Multiple companies helped sponsor the 2023 Pan American Games.

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*Mitsubishi Motors

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