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Overview | |
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XIII Pan American Games | |
Winner: Winnipeg Runner-up: Dominican Republic Candidate: Bogotá | |
Details | |
Committee | PASO |
Election venue | 32nd PASO General Assembly |
Map | |
Location of the bidding cities | |
Important dates | |
Decision | Guayaquil, Ecuador July 31, 1994 |
Decision | |
Winner | Winnipeg (28 votes) |
Runner-up | Dominican Republic (22 votes) |
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1999 Pan American Games |
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Three cities submitted bids to host the 1999 Pan American Games that were recognized by the Pan American Sports Organization. The voting took place on July 31, 1994, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. [1] [2]
Any country that had previously held the games was allotted two votes; those countries were Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, the United States, and Venezuela, making 50 votes in total, and a city needed a majority vote (26) to win. Canada, Colombia, and Dominican Republic delegates with bidding cities in the process couldn't vote. [3]
After the first round of voting, Bogotá was eliminated with 10 votes. In the second round, Winnipeg and Santo Domingo tied with 25 votes. During the tiebreaker round, the Canadian Bidding Committee Co-Chairman Don Mackenzie convinced three National Olympic Committee delegates, focusing on the fact that "Santo Domingo had no place for water-skiing, but Portage la Prairie has one of the best water-skiing facilities in Canada." Winnipeg went on to defeat Santo Domingo by a vote of 28 to 22. [4] [5]
1999 Pan American Games bidding results | ||||||
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City | NOC | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | ||
Winnipeg | Canada | 22 | 25 | 28 | ||
Santo Domingo | Dominican Republic | 18 | 25 | 22 | ||
Bogotá | Colombia | 10 | — | — |
In 1988, a Winnipeg delegation announced that once it got approval from the Canadian Olympic Association the city was allowed to present a bid to the COA Executive Board. On December 5, 1992, Winnipeg secured the Canadian bidding rights, defeating Toronto by one vote. Other three Canadian cities in the running were Halifax, Edmonton, and Sherbrooke. [6] [7]
Canadian bid process results | ||||||
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City | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | |||
Winnipeg | 15 | 14 | 22 | |||
Toronto | 17 | 21 | 21 | |||
Sherbrooke | 10 | 10 | — | |||
Edmonton | 3 | — | — |
In an attempt to secure the Latin American votes, the bid committee hired the Uruguayan television host Carlos Garcia. Garcia, who lived in Toronto, was a very know host in Latin America and had strong relationships with many of the National Olympic Committee members in the Americas. Additionally, the city presented an original song, written and performed by Burton Cummings, during its presentation. Winnipeg went on to defeat Santo Domingo in the third round. [8] [9]
Following the success of the 1986 Central American and Caribbean Games held in Santiago de los Caballeros, the then resident of the Dominican Republic Olympic Committee Dr. José Joaquín Puello announced a 13-point "ten-year strategic plan," from 1989 to 1999, in which the last point was host the Pan American Games. The country gained support of then President of the Pan American Sports Organization Mario Vázquez Raña following thereafter; on June 24, 1986, Raña urged Puello to bid for Pan American Games. [5]
On June 21, 1994, the then President of the Dominican Republic Joaquín Balaguer issued Decree 181–94, declaring that it was "of national interest to obtain the rights to host the 1999 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo and therefore, all the official authorities of the country are asked to give their collaboration to the Dominican Olympic Committee (CODOM) to achieve this objective." [10] President Balaguer also issued an emotional letter assembly that would meet in Guayaquil, in which a portion of it read, "We want, again, to be protagonists of history. Just as we were the land that opened the doors to American civilization, to conclude the century with the sports festival of the Continent." The city plans were down when they lost the bid process to Winnipeg in the third round of voting. [5]
Bogotá officially presented their bid to the Pan American Sports Organization on March 9, 1993. [11] Bogotá had never held the Pan American Games; however, Cali held the 1971 Pan American Games. On November 16, 1993, the then Mayor Jaime Castro Castro was announced as the leader of Bogotá's hosting campaign for the 1999 Pan American Games during the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games. [3] Castro, under the slogan En Colombia todo está dispuesto (English: In Colombia, everything can happen), pitched to PASO that the city has fulfilled the commitments made to the international community, particularly in the sports field. [12] The city fell short, however, as it was knocked out in the first round of voting. [4]
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