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OFFICIAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE BULLETIN No. 09 | OCT - NOV 2010 Directory Felipe Calderon Hinojosa President of the United States of Mexico Los atletas de la Selección Jalisco siempre Chairman of the Games apoyando a los Juegos Panamericanos Emilio Gonzalez Marquez Constitutional Governor of the State of Jalisco President of the XVI Pan American Games Organizing Committee Jorge Aristoteles Sandoval Mayor of Guadalajara Vice President of the XVI Pan American Games Organizing Committee Carlos Andrade Garin General Director of the Jalisco Sports Development Commission (CODE) General Director of the XVI Pan American Games Organizing Committee Email: [email protected] Ivar Sisniega Campbell Director of Operations and Sports Email: [email protected] Horacio de la Vega Flores Director of Marketing Email: [email protected] Hugo Rodriguez Gascon Director of Sports Infrastructure Email: [email protected] Federico Torres Lopez Director of Communications Parapan American Games Presented At the presentation, the COPAG repre- and Media Services he presentation of the Guadalajara 2011 sentatives addressed several issues includ- Email: [email protected] ing sports venues, the competition program, Francisco Javier T Parapan American Games, delivered at the Besson Ordoñez Annual International Paralympic Committee transportation, the Pan American Village, Director of Finance and Administration Email: [email protected] Conference in Bonn, Germany, was a success. sponsors, accreditations, visa processing and Itzia Cristina Santiago Villela Jorge Bermejo, Associate Director for the the organizational chart. Director of Law Parapan American Games and Raul Arizaga, As part of the Conference agenda, which ran Email: [email protected] October 28-30, criteria and qualification pro- Ofelia Medina Valadez Technical Coordinator for the Parapan Ameri- Director of Public Relations can Games were in charge of delivering the cesses were defined for Guadalajara 2011 and Email: [email protected] presentation to the technical delegates of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Future Juan Jose Martinez Jimenez Subdirector of Media Services several International Federations as well as the visits to Guadalajara by several Technical Del- Email: [email protected] CONTACT Medical Director for the International Paralym- egates were also scheduled for the upcoming *Bimonthly Issue pic Committee. months. Visits USOC members visit Pan American sporting venues Praise for Guadalajara 2011 Advances “It has been the right decision, the stadium is beautiful, delegation from the United States Olympic Committee has and is very close to the Pan American Village, virtually next Abeen inspecting the Pan American Games installations. to it,” said Leslie Gamez. The United States Olympic Committee has made several visits Other sites visited include CODE Paradero (for Track Cycling, to Guadalajara, and they have expressed their awe for the ad- Shooting, and Weightlifting); the volleyball complex, the gym- vances made since their last visit, in particular to the Pan Ameri- nastics complex as well as the construction site of the Village, can Village, the Aquatics Center, and the recently opened Telcel the Aquatics Center, and the Athletics Stadium. Tennis Stadium. “We are truly surprised with the advances shown in the Pan Leslie Gamez, US Olympic Committee Administrative Direc- American Village and it looks like the Aquatics Center will be tor of International Games informed that after four days in the one of the most important sports venues in the Americas,” western Mexico city of Guadalajara, they have already visited added Gamez. the Omnilife Stadium, venue where the opening ceremony of The US Committee visited Lagos de Moreno, in order to the Pan American Games will take place. check out the Baseball Stadium. Visits Brazil meets with members of COPAG. Brazil Supervises Pan American Facilities man, Mission Chief for Guadalajara 2011, Helbert Costa, special delegation from the Brazilian Olympic Committee, Manager of the Special Projects Office; and finally Gustavo Alead by Media Chief Claudio Mota, visited Guadalajara Harada, Sports Supervisor. They also visited the subsite cities in order to check on the advances presented during the last of Tapalpa, Ciudad Guzman, and Chapala. PASO meeting, recently held in Acapulco. “What we saw in the subsites is that the competition ar- “The new facilities, look very good, and the ones still in con- eas are good and very demanding. In Tapalpa, we think we struction look good too, and the Pan American Village seems should consider sending our team early due to the fact that to match the schedule presented at the meeting. We are defi- the route seems to be quite difficult. nitely going back home with the idea that the Pan American As for Ciudad Guzman, we did not get to see what we Games will be excellent,” stated Claudio Mota. wanted due to the current levels of the lake; therefore, a spe- The Brazilian delegation included Jose Roberto Perillier, cial delegation will have to come in the short term to check General Manager for High Performance, Ana Mariza Ribeiro, on the issues pertaining to rowing and canoeing,” summed General Manager of International Relations, Bernard Rajz- up the Media Chief for Brazil’s Olympic Committee. Visits Canadian Olympic Committee takes a tour of the Pan American Village. Canada Praises COPAG venues for which construction hadn’t started yet and to year after their last visit, the Canadian Olympic Committee date, they seem to have advanced quite a lot,” explained Areturned to Guadalajara to review advances in the organi- Anderson. zation and infrastructure for the XVI Pan American Games. The Canadian Olympic Committee confirmed that they will The team, led by Director of Operations Carla Anderson, send their strong teams to the Guadalajara 2011 Games since communicated their satisfaction with the advances shown and many of the disciplines are qualifiers for the London 2012 expressed their gratitude for the work that has been done Olympic Games. to date. Anderson acknowledged the hard work that it takes “We are really looking forward to arriving in Guadalajara to organize an event like these Games after her own experi- because we’re interested in the success of this event for every- ence with the organization of the Vancouver Winter Olympic one involved,” commented Carla Anderson. Games in early 2010. The Director of Operations also presented her colleague, “We have seen 90% of the venues and we have an excellent Andrew Baker, who will be in charge of logistics for the Cana- impression; for example, when I came last year, there were dian representation during the Guadalajara 2011 Games. Commercial Partners Nissan will be in charge of athletes’ trans- portation during the Pan American Games Nissan Mexico New Pan American Sponsor In addition, Nissan Mexico will have exclusive rights, howing interest for high performance sports, Nissan Mexico starting this year, for the name of the gymnastics stadium, Sis trying to get closer to all things related and as of today, which will become known as the “Nissan Pan American Gym- is an official sponsor for the XVI Pan American Games to be nastics Stadium.” The venue has seating capacity for 3,500 celebrated October 14-140 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. spectators who will witness competitions in artistic, rhythmic As such, Nissan Mexico is now part of this challenge and con- and trampoline gymnastics. firms its commitment to Mexico by supporting this competitive “Nissan Mexico believes in Mexico and its athletes. We share event where athletes from 42 countries will demonstrate their with them the essence of the Pan American competitive spirit. passion, discipline and commitment to sports. These happen to That’s why we’re pleased to be a sponsor for this sporting be values Nissan also believes in. event that is of great importance to the American Continent. The support offered by Nissan Mexico includes the availability Nissan has been chosen as an official sponsor specifically to of more than 400 vehicles allocated to the transportation of facilitate athlete transportation as our brand is associated with athletes, directors and organizers of the Pan American Games performance and reliability“, commented José Muñoz, Presi- during the 17 days of competition. dent and General Director of Nissan Mexico. Commercial Partners The Games have the best in telecommunications. Telmex Joins Games as Technology Sponsor a fiber optic network for communications and television elmex was named a technology partner for the Guadala- broadcasting. These services will be key since Telmex is Tjara 2011 Pan American Games after an announcement investing approximately $30M Mexican pesos for the instal- made at a meeting attended by Jalisco State Governor and lation of the fiber optic network thus making it easier for COPAG President Emilio González Márquez, COPAG General everyone to participate in the events that will happen in Director Carlos Andrade Garín, COPAG Director of Sports Guadalajara. and Operations Ivar Sisniega Campbell, COPAG Marketing “We’re number one in technology in Mexico and we share Director Horacio de la Vega and Arturo Elias Ayub, Telmex the national pride that our athletes do. We promise to bring President and Director of Strategic Partnerships and Director the best and most advanced technology event in October of the Telmex Foundation. 2011,” commented Arturo Elias