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Which bid city is your preference to host the 2015 Pan American Games?

TORONTO 2015 - Pan American Games - Venues

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3 cities are bidding to host the 2015 Pan American Games: Bogota, Lima, and Toronto. The Pan American (Pan Am) Games is a multi-sport competition, held every four years, for athletes from the 43 nations in America.

The Pan Am Games is governed by the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO), with members of the National Olympic Committees of 43 nations. The successful candidate for the 2015 Pan American Games will be announced by the PASO in Guadalajara, Mexico during the Fall of 2009.

Which bid city is your preference to host in 2015?


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The 43 Participating Nations in America

Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba
Bahamas, Barbados, Belize
Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil
British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica
Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador
Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana
Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica
Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Sint Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
United States, United States Virgin Islands, Uruguay
Venezuela
 
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Absolute scores of tickets still available. It was always going to be an event that lost money as a sort of trial run to see if Toronto could host an Olympics.

It may well be that this event encourages further bids to bring the summer Olympics to Toronto, but it will come at a high price. Considering how intimate some of the venues are, there's not a huge number of tickets to sell but the numbers right now are very disappointing.

The PR spin now is that ticket sales for such events are always slow until the torch relay begins. Let's hope it's a long, slow relay.
 
#172 ·
The marketing campaign was all but non-existent till about 2 weeks ago. That said, Toronto seems to be a city that only supports things that they deem trendy, cool, or the 'best'. They won't get behind it out of sheer love of sports like in other cities like Melbourne, Chicago, or London. It doesn't help that most Canadians don't know what the Pan American Games are.

That said, this is a very big market so I expect the venues to be near full when the Games start.
 
#176 ·
Quite a big difference between the Rio athletics stadium and the one we built. Theirs seated 70,000+. That said, we would have been left with a white elephant if we built a new stadium that size. Neither our football or soccer team needs anything larger than BMO.
 
#179 ·
Ok, I stand corrected. There's still quite a discrepancy between the Rio and Toronto athletics stadia for the PAG.
 
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