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2007 Pan American Games

Index 2007 Pan American Games

The 2007 Pan American Games, officially known as the XV Pan American Games, were a major continental multi-sport event that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 13 to July 29, 2007. [1]

186 relations: Alfonso Martínez (taekwondo), Alia Atkinson, América Televisión, Americas, Andrés Silva, Archery, Artistic gymnastics, Association football, Badminton, BandSports, Barra Bowling Center, Barra Olympic Park, Baseball, Basketball, Basque pelota, Beach volleyball, BMX, Bowling, Boxing, Brazil, Brazilian Army, Brazilian Olympic Committee, Caiçaras Club, Canal 13 (Chile), Canal 13 (Colombia), Canal Capital, Canoe sprint, Canoeing, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, Chinyere Pigot, City of Rock, Cleveland Forde, Copacabana Stadium, CP football, CTV Sports, Cycling, Danielle Scott-Arruda, Dean Greenaway, Deodoro Military Club, Diving, Dominican Republic, Dressage, Driulis González, Equestrianism, ESPN, ESPN Brasil, ESPN Deportes, Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos, Eurosport, Eva Dimas, ..., Eventing, Fencing, Field hockey, Flamengo Park, Football at the 2007 Pan American Games – Men's tournament, Football at the 2007 Pan American Games – Women's tournament, Freestyle wrestling, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Futsal, Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Greco-Roman wrestling, Gymnastics, Handball, Houston, International Olympic Committee, Iridia Salazar, Irving Saladino, Jeremy Knowles (swimmer), Jeunesse Arena, Joaquim Cruz, Josh Laban, Judo, Karate, Kevin Cordón, Kiera Aitken, Latin America, Leydi Solís, List of international sports federations, List of largest cities in Brazil, List of water sports, Luciana Aymar, Luis Alonso Morán, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Magic Johnson, Maracanã Stadium, Marapendi Club, Marathon, Marco Arriagada, Maria Lenk, Marina da Glória, Mario Vázquez Raña, Meridiano Televisión, Mexico, Mexico City, Miami, Miécimo da Silva Sports Complex, Modern pentathlon, Mountain biking, Multi-sport event, Natália Falavigna, National Olympic Committee, Oliba Nieve, Oscar Schmidt, Outeiro Hill, Pan American Games sports, Pan American Sports Organization, Panamericana Televisión, Paralympic association football, Parapan American Games, Powerlifting, Prejudice, Racewalking, Racquetball, Raleigh, North Carolina, RecordTV, Rede Bandeirantes, Rede Globo, Rhythmic gymnastics, Rio de Janeiro, Riocentro, Road bicycle racing, Rodion Davelaar, Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon, Roller skating, Rowing (sport), Sailing, San Antonio, Santo Domingo, São Paulo, Señal Colombia, Shooting, Shooting sports, Show jumping, Silvio Fernández (fencer born 1979), Sitting volleyball, Softball, Speed skating, Sport, Sport of athletics, SporTV, Squash (sport), Sun, Susan Nattrass, Swimming, Swimming (sport), Swimming at the 2007 Pan American Games, Synchronised swimming, Table tennis, Taekwondo, Tele Antillas, Teleamazonas, Telecaribe, Telecorporación Salvadoreña, Teledoce, Telepacífico, Televisa, Televisión Nacional de Chile, Televisión Pública Argentina, Televisión Regional del Oriente, Tennis, Texas, Track and field, Track cycling, Trampoline, Triathlon, United States, UTC−03:00, Vanderlei de Lima, Volleyball, Water polo, Water skiing, Wayne Williams, Wheelchair basketball, Wheelchair tennis, Wrestling, Yuderqui Contreras, Zico Football Center, 12-hour clock, 1950 FIFA World Cup, 1963 Pan American Games, 2003 Pan American Games, 2007 Pan American Games opening ceremony, 2011 Pan American Games, 2014 FIFA World Cup, 2016 Summer Olympics, 2019 Copa América. Expand index (136 more) »

Alfonso Martínez (taekwondo)

Alfonso Martinez is a Belizean taekwondo martial artist residing in Taiwan.

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Alia Atkinson

Alia Shanee Atkinson (born December 11, 1988) is a Jamaican swimmer and Olympian.

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América Televisión

América Televisión is a Peruvian television network, founded in 1958.

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Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

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Andrés Silva

Andrés Bayron Silva Lemos (born 27 March 1986 in Tacuarembó) is a Uruguayan track athlete.

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Archery

Archery is the art, sport, practice or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.

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Artistic gymnastics

Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines (ranging from approximately 30 to 90 seconds) on different apparatuses, with less time for vaulting.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.

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BandSports

BandSports is a Brazilian cable television network that has its programming based on all sports, launched in 2002 by Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação.

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Barra Bowling Center

The Pan American Games Rio 2007 bowling tournament was played at the Barra Bowling Center, located inside the Barra Shopping Mall.

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Barra Olympic Park

The Barra Olympic Park (Brazilian Portuguese: Parque Olímpico da Barra), originally the City of Sports Complex, is a cluster of nine sporting venues in Barra da Tijuca, in the west zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Basque pelota

Basque pelota (pilota in the original Basque language also pelota vasca in Spanish, pelote basque in French) is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a wall (frontis or Fronton) or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net.

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Beach volleyball

Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.

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BMX

BMX, an abbreviation for bicycle motocross or bike motocross, is a cycle sport performed on BMX bikes, either in competitive BMX racing or freestyle BMX, or else in general on- or off-road recreation.

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Bowling

Bowling is a sport or leisure activity in which a player rolls or throws a bowling ball towards a target.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Brazilian Army

The Brazilian Army (Exército Brasileiro) is the land arm of the Brazilian Armed Forces.

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Brazilian Olympic Committee

The Brazilian Olympic Committee or BOC (Comitê Olímpico do Brasil – COB) is the highest authority in Brazilian sport and the governing body of Brazilian Olympic sport.

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Caiçaras Club

Founded in 1931, Caiçaras Club is a private leisure club in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Canal 13 (Chile)

Canal 13 (literally in English: Channel 13), previously called Universidad Católica de Chile Televisión, also known as El 13, is the second-oldest television station in Chile.

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Canal 13 (Colombia)

Canal 13 is a Colombian regional television channel, focused on young audiences.

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Canal Capital

Canal Capital is a Colombian local public television channel, launched 3 November 1997,, Canal Capital, accessed 11 June 2009 operated as an industrial and commercial company in the Bogotá Capital District.

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Canoe sprint

Canoe sprint is a sport in which athletes race canoes or kayaks on calm water.

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Canoeing

Canoeing is an activity which involves paddling a canoe with a single-bladed paddle.

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Carlos Arthur Nuzman

Carlos Arthur Nuzman (born 17 March 1942) is a Brazilian lawyer and a former volleyball player, having competed professionally from 1957 to 1972 and represented the national team between 1962 and 1968.

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Chinyere Pigot

Chinyere Pigot is a Surinamese swimmer living in Miami, Florida who attended the University of Connecticut and participated on a collegiate level.

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City of Rock

The City of Rock (Cidade do Rock), located in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, is an events venue best known for hosting the music festival Rock in Rio.

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Cleveland Forde

Cleveland Forde (born April 3, 1985), is a Guyanese track runner who specialized in various middle-distance and long-distance disciplines.

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Copacabana Stadium

Copacabana Stadium, also known as the Beach Volleyball Arena (Arena de Vôlei de Praia), was a temporary stadium located on Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that hosted the beach volleyball competition of the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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CP football

Cerebal palsy football, also called 7-a-side football or Paralympic football, is an adaptation of association football for athletes with cerebral palsy and other neurological disorders, including stroke and traumatic brain injury.

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CTV Sports

CTV Sports was the division of the CTV Television Network responsible for sports broadcasting.

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Cycling

Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport.

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Danielle Scott-Arruda

Danielle Racquel Scott-Arruda (born October 1, 1972) is an American-Brazilian indoor volleyball player.

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Dean Greenaway

Dean Greenaway (born 13 January 1959 in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands) is a sprinter who represented the British Virgin Islands.

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Deodoro Military Club

The Deodoro Military Circle is a Brazilian Army sport facility in Rio de Janeiro, at the Military Village, on the western side of the city.

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Diving

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, usually while performing acrobatics.

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Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic (República Dominicana) is a sovereign state located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region.

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Dressage

Dressage (or; a French term, most commonly translated to mean "training") is a highly skilled form of riding performed in exhibition and competition, as well as an "art" sometimes pursued solely for the sake of mastery.

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Driulis González

Driulis González Morales (born September 21, 1973 in Guantánamo) is a female Cuban judoka who has won four Olympic medals, including a gold medal in 1996.

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Equestrianism

Equestrianism (from Latin equester, equestr-, equus, horseman, horse), more often known as riding, horse riding (British English) or horseback riding (American English), refers to the skill of riding, driving, steeplechasing or vaulting with horses.

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ESPN

ESPN (originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture owned by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%).

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ESPN Brasil

ESPN Brasil is a group of cable television network, launched in March 1989.

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ESPN Deportes

ESPN Deportes (ESPN Sports) is an American Spanish language digital cable and satellite sports television channel that is owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between the Disney–ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) and the Hearst Communications (which owns the remaining 20%).

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Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos

The Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos, formerly the Estádio Olímpico João Havelange (João Havelange Olympic Stadium), is a multi-purpose stadium located in the neighbourhood of Engenho de Dentro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Eurosport

Eurosport is a pan-European television sports network, owned and operated by Discovery, Inc. Discovery took a 20% minority interest share in December 2012, and became the majority shareholder in the Eurosport venture with TF1 in January 2014, taking a 51% share of the company.

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Eva Dimas

Eva María Dimas Fontanals (born March 18, 1973 in San Salvador) is a retired female weightlifter from El Salvador.

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Eventing

Eventing (also known as three day eventing or horse trials) is an equestrian event where a single horse and rider combination compete against other combinations across the three disciplines of dressage, cross-country, and show jumping.

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Fencing

Fencing is a group of three related combat sports.

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Field hockey

Field hockey is a team game of the hockey family.

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Flamengo Park

Flamengo Park, also known as Aterro do Flamengo, Eduardo Gomes Park, and Aterro do Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes, is the largest public park and recreation area within the city of Rio de Janeiro, in eastern Brazil.

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Football at the 2007 Pan American Games – Men's tournament

The Pan American Sports Organization expanded the number of participants from 8 to 12 and set the age limit to the Under-20 level.

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Football at the 2007 Pan American Games – Women's tournament

The women's association football tournament at the 2007 Pan American Games The number of teams was expanded to 10 teams for this edition, with no age limit.

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Freestyle wrestling

Freestyle wrestling is a style of amateur wrestling that is practiced throughout the world.

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Fundação Getúlio Vargas

Fundação Getulio Vargas (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, often abbreviated as FGV or simply GV) is a Brazilian higher education institution founded on December 20, 1944.

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Futsal

Futsal is a variant of association football played on a hard court, smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors.

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Ginásio do Maracanãzinho

Ginásio Gilberto Cardoso (Portuguese: Ginásio do Maracanãzinho), sometimes called just Maracanãzinho ("Little Maracanã" or "Mini Maracanã"), is an indoor arena located in Maracanã in the north zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Greco-Roman wrestling

Greco-Roman (US) or Graeco-Roman (UK) wrestling is a style of wrestling that is practiced worldwide.

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Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport that requires balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and endurance.

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Handball

Handball (also known as team handball, fieldball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outfield players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: Comité International Olympique, CIO) is a Swiss private non-governmental organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, which is the authority responsible for the modern Olympic Games.

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Iridia Salazar

Iridia Salazar Blanco (born June 14, 1982) is a Mexican taekwondo practitioner and Olympic medalist.

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Irving Saladino

Irving Jahir Saladino Aranda (born January 23, 1983) is a Panamanian former long jumper.

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Jeremy Knowles (swimmer)

Jeremy Daniel Knowles (born 30 August 1981 in Nassau) is a 3-time Olympic and Bahamian-Record-holding swimmer from The Bahamas.

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Jeunesse Arena

Jeunesse Arena is an indoor multi-purpose arena, located in the region of Barra da Tijuca, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Joaquim Cruz

Joaquim Carvalho Cruz (born March 12, 1963) is a former Brazilian middle-distance runner, winner of the 800 meters at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

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Josh Laban

Joshua Noel Laban (born December 25, 1982) is an Olympic swimmer from the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Judo

was created as a physical, mental and moral pedagogy in Japan, in 1882, by Jigoro Kano (嘉納治五郎).

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Karate

(Okinawan pronunciation) is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom.

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Kevin Cordón

Kevin Haroldo Cordón Buezo (born November 28, 1986) is a Guatemalan badminton player.

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Kiera Aitken

Kiera Aitken (born 31 October 1983) is an Olympic and national-record holding swimmer from Bermuda.

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Latin America

Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.

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Leydi Solís

Leydi Yesenia Solís Arboleda (born 17 February 1990) is a Colombian female weightlifter.

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List of international sports federations

This is a list of international sports federations, each of which serves as a non-governmental governing body for a given sport and administers its sport at a world level, most often crafting rules, promoting the sport to prospective spectators and fans, developing prospective players, and organizing world or continental championships.

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List of largest cities in Brazil

Brazil has a high level of urbanization: 82 out of every 100 Brazilians live in cities.

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List of water sports

There are dozens of commonly played sports that involve water.

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Luciana Aymar

Luciana Paula Aymar (born 10 August 1977) is a retired Argentine field hockey player.

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Luis Alonso Morán

Luis Alonso Morán Servellón(born August 4, 1971 in Tegucigalpa) is a Honduran judoka, who competed in the men's heavyweight category.

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born 27 October 1945), popularly known as Lula, is a Brazilian politician and former union leader, who served as the 35th President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011.

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Magic Johnson

Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. (born August 14, 1959) is an American retired professional basketball player and current president of basketball operations of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Maracanã Stadium

The Maracanã (Estádio do Maracanã, standard Brazilian Portuguese:, local pronunciation), officially Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, is a football stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Marapendi Club

The Marapendi Club in Rio de Janeiro was the tennis venue during the 2007 Pan American Games.

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Marathon

The marathon is a long-distance race, completed by running, walking, or a run/walk strategy.

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Marco Arriagada

Marco Antonio Arriagada Quinchel (born October 30, 1975 in Curicó) is a Chilean professional racing cyclist.

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Maria Lenk

Maria Emma Hulga Lenk (January 15, 1915 – April 16, 2007) was a Brazilian swimmer and to date is considered one of the greatest Brazilian female athletes.

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Marina da Glória

Marina da Glória is a marina located in the neighbourhood of Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Mario Vázquez Raña

Mario Vázquez Raña (7 June 1932 – 8 February 2015) was a Mexican businessman and sports administrator, who served on both national and Olympic committees.

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Meridiano Televisión

Meridiano Televisión is a 24-hour sports network in Venezuela.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mexico City

Mexico City, or the City of Mexico (Ciudad de México,; abbreviated as CDMX), is the capital of Mexico and the most populous city in North America.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Miécimo da Silva Sports Complex

Miécimo da Silva Sports Complex is an indoor sporting arena located in Campo Grande neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil.

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Modern pentathlon

The modern pentathlon is an Olympic sport that comprises five different events; fencing (one-touch épée), freestyle swimming (200m), equestrian show jumping (15 jumps), and a final combined event of pistol shooting and cross country running (3200m).

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Mountain biking

Mountain biking is the sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially designed mountain bikes.

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Multi-sport event

A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports among organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states.

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Natália Falavigna

Natália Falavigna da Silva (born May 9, 1984 in MaringáGuia do Pan – XV Jogos Pan-Americanos. Rio de Janeiro: Lance!, 2007) is a taekwondo athlete from Brazil.

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National Olympic Committee

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) is a national constituent of the worldwide Olympic movement.

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Oliba Nieve

Oliba Seledina Nieves Arroyo (born 1977-11-25 in Esmeraldas) is a female weightlifter from Ecuador.

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Oscar Schmidt

Oscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt (born February 16, 1958) is a retired Brazilian professional basketball player.

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Outeiro Hill

In the vicinity of the City of Sports Complex and the Riocentro Convention Center Sports Complex, the Morro do Outeiro holds the temporary venue to stage the Mountain Bike and BMX Cycling competitions.

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Pan American Games sports

The Pan American Games sports comprise all the sports contested in the Summer Olympic Games.

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Pan American Sports Organization

The Pan American Sports Organization (Panam Sports; Organización Deportiva Panamericana) is an international organization which represents the current 41 National Olympic Committees of North America, South America, Central America and the Caribbean.

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Panamericana Televisión

Panamericana Televisión (sometimes shortened to Pantel) is a Peruvian television network, which was founded on July 21, 1957 and had later begun its official broadcast on October 16, 1959.

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Paralympic association football

Paralympic football consists of adaptations of the sport of association football for athletes with a physical disability.

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Parapan American Games

The Parapan American Games is an international multi-sport event for athletes with physical disabilities held every four years after every Pan American Games.

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Powerlifting

Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift.

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Prejudice

Prejudice is an affective feeling towards a person or group member based solely on that person's group membership.

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Racewalking

Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics.

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Racquetball

Racquetball is a racquet sport played with a hollow rubber ball in an indoor or outdoor court.

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Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is the capital of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States.

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RecordTV

RecordTV is a Brazilian free-to-air commercial television network established in September 27, 1953 by the businessman and media personality Paulo Machado de Carvalho.

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Rede Bandeirantes

Rede Bandeirantes (Bandeirantes Network), or simply Band, is a television network from Brazil, based in São Paulo.

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Rede Globo

Rede Globo (Globe Network), or simply Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto Marinho on 26 April 1965.

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Rhythmic gymnastics

Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or groups of five manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon and freehand (no apparatus).

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Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro (River of January), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas.

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Riocentro

Riocentro is an exhibition and convention center located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Road bicycle racing

Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held on paved roads.

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Rodion Davelaar

Rodion Davelaar (born 6 August 1990, Willemstad) is an Antillean swimmer.

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Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon

Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon (Portuguese: Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas) is a lagoon in the district of Lagoa in the Zona Sul (South Zone) area of Rio de Janeiro.

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Roller skating

Roller skating is the traveling on surfaces with roller skates.

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Rowing (sport)

Rowing, often referred to as crew in the United States, is a sport whose origins reach back to Ancient Egyptian times.

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Sailing

Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship, sailboat, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ice (iceboat) or on land (land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh most populous city in the United States and the second most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States.

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Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo (meaning "Saint Dominic"), officially Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population.

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São Paulo

São Paulo is a municipality in the southeast region of Brazil.

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Señal Colombia

Señal Colombia is a Colombian national television channel established and funded by the government.

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Shooting

Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, slingshot, crossbow, or bow. Even the acts of launching/discharging artillery, darts, grenades, rockets and guided missiles can be considered acts of shooting. When using a firearm, the act of shooting is often called firing as it involves initiating a combustion process (deflagration). Shooting can take place in a shooting range or in the field, in shooting sports, hunting or in combat. A person involved in the shooting activity is a shooter. A proficient shooter is a marksman or sharpshooter. A person's level of shooting proficiency is referred to as marksmanship.

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Shooting sports

Shooting sports is a collective group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in using various types of ranged weapons, mainly referring to man-portable guns (firearms and airguns, in forms such as handguns, rifles and shotguns) and bows/crossbows.

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Show jumping

Show jumping, also known as "stadium jumping", "open jumping", or simply "jumping", is a part of a group of English riding equestrian events that also includes dressage, eventing, hunters, and equitation.

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Silvio Fernández (fencer born 1979)

Silvio Fernández Briceño (born January 9, 1979 in Caracas, Distrito Capital) is a Venezuelan épée fencer.

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Sitting volleyball

Sitting volleyball (sometimes known as paralympic volleyball) is a form of volleyball for athletes with a disability that entered the Paralympic Games as a demonstration sport for athletes with amputations in 1976 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and played as a medal sport thereafter.

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Softball

Softball is a variant of baseball played with a larger ball (11 in. to 12 in. sized ball) on a smaller field.

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Speed skating

Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates.

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Sport

Sport (British English) or sports (American English) includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators.

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Sport of athletics

Athletics is a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking.

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SporTV

SporTV is a Brazilian cable television network that has its programming based on all sports, launched in 1991 by Globosat.

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Squash (sport)

Squash is a ball sport played by two (singles) or four players (doubles squash) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Susan Nattrass

Dr.

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Swimming

Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through fresh or salt water, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival.

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Swimming (sport)

Swimming is an individual or team sport that requires the use of ones arms and legs to move the body through water.

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Swimming at the 2007 Pan American Games

The swimming competitions at the 2007 Pan American Games consisted of 34 events, Note: Open water is/was considered a separate discipline from swimming for the Games, similar to how it is treated by FINA, the international federation which oversees aquatics, and by how it was treated at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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Synchronised swimming

Synchronised swimming (renamed as artistic swimming since July 2017 by the global governing body FINA), is a hybrid form of swimming, dance, and gymnastics, consisting of swimmers performing a synchronised routine (either solo, duet, mixed duet, free team, free combination, and highlight) of elaborate moves in the water, accompanied by music.

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Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table using small bats.

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Taekwondo

Taekwondo (from Korean 태권도, 跆拳道) is a Korean martial art, characterised by its emphasis on head-height kicks, jumping and spinning kicks, and fast kicking techniques.

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Tele Antillas

Tele Antillas HIJB - Canal 2 is a television network operating out of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

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Teleamazonas

Teleamazonas is a television channel in Ecuador.

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Telecaribe

Telecaribe is a regional television network for the Caribbean region of Colombia.

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Telecorporación Salvadoreña

Telecorporación Salvadoreña (TCS) is a television network in El Salvador.

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Teledoce

Teledoce Televisora Color, also known as Canal 12, is a television channel of Uruguay.

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Telepacífico

Telepacífico is a Colombian regional public television network, created in 1986 as the city of Cali celebrated its 450th anniversary.

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Televisa

Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. is a Mexican multimedia mass media company and the largest in Hispanic America and the Spanish-speaking world.

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Televisión Nacional de Chile

Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) is the Chilean public television broadcaster.

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Televisión Pública Argentina

Televisión Pública Argentina (Argentine Public Television) is a publicly owned Argentine television network. It began broadcasting in 1951, when LR3 Radio Belgrano Television channel 7 in Buenos Aires, its key station and the first television station in the country, signed on the air.

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Televisión Regional del Oriente

Televisión Regional del Oriente (Eastern Regional Television, TRO) is a Colombian regional public television network, created in 1997.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Track and field

Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing.

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Track cycling

Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes (but many events are held at older velodromes where the track banking is relatively shallow) using track bicycles.

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Trampoline

A trampoline is a device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched between a steel frame using many coiled springs.

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Triathlon

A triathlon is a multiple-stage competition involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance disciplines.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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UTC−03:00

UTC−03:00 is a time offset that subtracts 3 hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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Vanderlei de Lima

Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima (born 11 August 1969 in Cruzeiro do Oeste, Paraná, Brazil) is a former long-distance runner who specialised in marathons.

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Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.

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Water polo

Water polo is a competitive team sport played in the water between two teams.

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Water skiing

Water skiing (also waterskiing or water-skiing) is a surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface on two skis or one ski.

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Wayne Williams

Wayne Bertram Williams (born May 27, 1958) is an American serial killer who was tried, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1982 for killing two adult men.

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Wheelchair basketball

Wheelchair basketball is basketball played by people with varying physical disabilities that disqualify them from playing an able-bodied sport.

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Wheelchair tennis

Wheelchair tennis is one of the forms of tennis adapted for wheelchair users.

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Wrestling

Wrestling is a combat sport involving grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds.

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Yuderqui Contreras

Yuderqui Maridalia Contreras, also known as Yudelkis Contreras, (born March 27, 1986) is a Dominican Republican female weightlifter.

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Zico Football Center

The Zico Football Center (ZFC) is a sports complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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12-hour clock

The 12-hour clock is a time convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods: "The use of AM or PM to designate either noon or midnight can cause ambiguity.

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1950 FIFA World Cup

The 1950 FIFA World Cup, held in Brazil from 24 June to 16 July 1950, was the fourth FIFA World Cup.

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1963 Pan American Games

The 4th Pan American Games were held from April 20 to May 5, 1963, in São Paulo, Brazil.

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2003 Pan American Games

The 14th Pan American Games were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from August 1 until August 17, 2003.

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2007 Pan American Games opening ceremony

The Opening Ceremony of the XV Pan American Games took place on 13 July 2007.

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2011 Pan American Games

The 2011 Pan American Games, officially the XVI Pan American Games, was an international multi-sport event that was held from October 14–30, 2011, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

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2014 FIFA World Cup

The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football teams organized by FIFA.

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2016 Summer Olympics

The 2016 Summer Olympics (Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad and commonly known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August.

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2019 Copa América

The 2019 Copa América will be the 46th edition of the Copa América, the quadrennial international men's football championship organized by South America's football ruling body CONMEBOL.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Pan_American_Games

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