GUADALAJARA, Mexico-The Canadian city of Toronto, who won the seat of the Pan American Games in 2015, has a support of the three levels of government in the country and a budget of $ 1.4 trillion that will allow you to build a fair Olympic level in several respects.
For starters, Toronto ensures that visitors will not need visa to enter the country and use the accreditation of the Organizing Committee as immigration document.
The budget includes 720 million for operating expenses and 700 million invested in sports facilities, including a Villa Panamericana was outstanding for up to 8500 athletes in an area of 80 hectares near the urban area, which is already under construction.
Toronto, a city known internationally for its cleanliness and fraternal atmosphere, has been described as the city with the best security in the Western Hemisphere and in sports has proven to host the World Indoor Athletics in 1993, World of Sub'20 FIFA, in 2007, and the World Baseball Classic this year.
Some of the offers of Toronto is the support for the trip of a team, provided it is registered with 90 days notice, 75 per group and free uniforms, in addition, 18 athletes from each country can train for free in the city and each chairman of delegation will have access to a car.
Other benefits to Toronto in 2015 will be free television broadcasting one hour a day to the American countries, plus payment of two journalists for the country to cover a minimum of 50 hours of transmission Guadalajara Pan American Games to be held in 2011.
Toronto is committed to inherit his community a new aquatic center, an athletics stadium and velodrome.
Contests will be from 10 to 26 July 2015, in summer, with temperatures averaging 26 degrees and an altitude of 112 meters above sea level.
The 50 percent of the population of Toronto was born outside of Canadian territory, so it also exposes a multi-cultural environment where 100 languages are spoken.
The city, which make up just over eight million people, has a market rich in opportunities for sponsorship and private sector participation and a renewed generational population.
Finally, there is sufficient infrastructure for the mobility, plus exclusive avenues to be constructed to transport athletes during the Pan American Games, which successfully underwent Rio de Janeiro in 2007.
Canada has a stamp of credibility as an organizer of the Pan American Games after having been successfully organized in the years 1967 and 1999, both times in the city of Winnipeg.
from EFE, Fox Sports International.
Posted: 06 November, 2009, 8:17 pm, ARST. |