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Pan Am-arama!
by Matthew Murdoch
Photos courtesy TORON TO 2015 (e xc e p t w h e re n o t e d)
The Pan American and Parapan Am Games are heading to Toronto this July
and August, their third touchdown in Canada and first-ever visit to Ontario.
The Games stand as the world’s third-
Olympics. Another notable Pan Am veteran is
largest international multi-sport event, this year
trampoline gymnast Rosie MacLennan, who took
comprising 36 Pan Am sports and 15 Parapan
the only Canadian gold medal at the London
Am sports that will bring together approximately
2012 Olympics after earning gold at the 2011
7,600 athletes (6,000 Pan Am, 1,600 Parapan
Pan Am Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Am) from North America, South America,
Latin America and the Caribbean.
For many Canadian athletes, the Games
For the looming home Games, officially
dubbed TORONTO 2015, Team Canada has set
a goal of placing second overall in the Pan Am
have led to Olympic Games glory. Perhaps
medal count and third overall for the Parapan Am
the most famous is sprinter Donovan Bailey,
standings. Avid viewers can catch the excitement
who took silver in the 1991 Havana Pan Am
by watching the televised competitions or, if in
Games in Cuba before setting a world record
the Greater Toronto Area, getting out to one of
as an Olympic Champion at the Atlanta 1996
the venues between municipalities as far east as
Oshawa and as far south as Welland.
TORONTO 2015 boasts several notable sport
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