Pan American Games 2011.

    

    The Pan American Games 2011 was held in Guadalajara, Mexico, between 14 and 30 October. Guadalajara was the city chosen to host the Pan American Games 2011 in an election that occurred in 2006. The mayor of Guadalajara received the banner of Pan-American at the closing ceremony of the Pan American Games 2007 which took place in Rio de Janeiro.                                                                     

      The Pan American Games is a very popular multi-sport event that has more than 6000 athletes from 42 countries who are in search of many types of medals in 36 sports.         

      The city of Guadalajara had to prepare a lot to get this great event, they had torace against time to build new hotels  because of large number of tourists who wouldcome to the     games, also had to build a second terminal of the airport .They spentabout $ 200 million to the sports infrastructure, but the total budget was estimated at approximately $ 250 million. Spending too much money benefited the people of Guadalajara, with the improvement of streets and public transport.                                                                                

     The Pan American Games take place 4-4 years, so it is very necessary to trainathletes for the event . This year the 2011 Pan had more than 700,000 fans in 1177and had medals of these, 141 went to Brazil. In the first place was the United States with 236 medals, 92 gold, second to Cuba with 136, 58 gold, in Brazil the third with 141 medals, 48 gold, and fourth in the host country that is México with 133 medals,42 gold.                                                                              

                                                        

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The mascots of the Pan American Games 2011: Gavo, Leo and Huichi, from left to right. 

       

      The mascots of the Pan-American Games of 2011 are Huichi, Gavo and Leo. The mascots were unveiled on November 28, 2009 and their names on February 10, 2010.

      The mascots represent the state of Jalisco and the city of Guadalajara. The Gavowhich is a blue agave tequila is the production of which is a distilled alcoholic beverage, which originated in Mexico and is made from a plant called Agavetequilana, the Blue Agave, Hence the origin of the name of the mascot. The Huichicorsa lilac which is representing the south of Jalisco and alludes to the Huichoi are anindigenous ethnic group of western central Mexico, and femininity. Finally Leo, the lion yellow, which represents the strength of the people of Guadalajara, alludes to thecity seal. These are the mascots of the 2011 Pan-American, Mexican and they were very good and praised the culture of the people.