Guadalajara ready to host Pan American Games despite Hurricane Jova
By Tom Degun in Guadalajara
October 13 - Guadalajara have declared that they are still ready to host the 2011 Pan American Games on schedule despite the tail end of Hurricane Jova battering Mexico's Pacific Coast and producing heavy rain around some of the key sporting venues that will be used for the competition.
October 13 - Guadalajara have declared that they are still ready to host the 2011 Pan American Games on schedule despite the tail end of Hurricane Jova battering Mexico's Pacific Coast and producing heavy rain around some of the key sporting venues that will be used for the competition.
October 10 - The Organising Committee for the Guadalajara 2011 Pan American Games have claimed that while minor work still needs to be done to complete several of the sporting venues, they are now optimistic everything will be ready to go when the competition gets underway later this week.
August 24 - Work on the Guadalajara 2011 Pan American Games athletics stadium has fallen behind schedule with the track and field venue badly affected by years of poor planning, political infighting and now an untimely rainy season, leaving it as a muddy mess with less than two months to go until the event begins on October 14.
July 5 - The Guadalajara 2011 Organising Committee are today celebrating a major milestone with just 100 days left to go until the start of the Pan American Games in the Mexican city.
January 7 - The Pan/Parapan American Games in four years' time will be officially known as Toronto 2015, the organising committee has announced.
October 26 - The firm behind the Stadium being built for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics have been given the project to plan and design the Athletes' Village for the 2015 Pan/ParaPan American Game in Toronto in 2015.
October 4 - A logo inspired by aboriginal art forms will contribute to an "unforgettable experience" at the Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games claim the organisers..jpg)
July 2 - Olympic medallist Doug Hamilton has been appointed as a member of Toronto's Board of Directors for the 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games Host Committee, it was announced today.
June 29 - A successful project review of Guadalajara's preparations for the 2011 Parapan American Games has been just been completed.
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February 11 - Ian Troop (pictured), a long-time food and consumer-goods executive with extensive experience in sports, has been chosen as the $350,000 (£212,000) per year chief executive of the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, it was announced today.
December 28 - Former hotel executive Roger Garland was today unveiled as the chairman of Toronto's 2015 Pan American Games along with the other members of the Board, including Sylvie Bernier (pictured), a former Olympic diving champion.
November 6 - Toronto was chosen to host the 2015 Pan-American Games, beating Lima and Bogota at the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) Assembly in Guadalajara today.
November 5- The 2011 Pan American Games, one of the biggest events on the sporting calendar, could be moved from Guadalajara unless the Mexican city can find a $50 million (£30 million) guarantee within two weeks, they have been warned.
