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Barranquilla returns to be the epicenter of regional sport seventy-two years after having organized the first games of Central America and the Caribbean that Colombia conducted in 1946.
sixteen days, and since this Thursday, the capital Atlantic will welcome 5,424 athletes from 37 countries and territories who will participate on August 3 at the XXIII edition of the Games of Central America and the Caribbean.
This edition will be the second with more tests, with 450, just behind that of Mayagüez 2010, where there were 492.
Recognized for its carnival, the most popular party in the country, Barranquilla has been embellished to confirm that it is the Golden Gate of Colombia: about 174 million dollars have been invested in games. [19659004Thelargestpartofthemoneyismadeupofsports-mostofthemarebuilt-andthegeneralinfrastructure
"We are very satisfied. We will row the best games. We will fill the nations of Central America and the Caribbean, "said Games Director Daniel Noguera.
In sports, the party will begin with table tennis, diving, football and sailing , which will open the competitions this July 19, opening day of the event that will close with a thriving Shakira, the world's most famous barranquilla, at the opening ceremony at Metropolitan Stadium Roberto Meléndez
The first medals will be distributed from the second day of the competition: On July 20th, gold will be awarded to diving, swimming, artistic gymnastics, weight, taekwondo, table tennis, road cycling, men's and women's time trial and modern pentathlon
Cali and Bogotá will be subdivisions
Road and track cycling, squash, pentathlon modern, bowling, canoeing and l & # 39; rowing will be held in the capital of Valle del Cauca, while in the capital of the country is made
Cuba, which won twelve editions, and Mexico, which escorts with ten titles, with Colombia are the country with the most athletes.
Mexico will face 672, Colombia, which has just won As Central America and the Caribbean mark the beginning of the Olympic cycle towards Tokyo 2020, in Barranquilla will be cited several figures of the continent who hope to place their country in the last medal table.
Colombia's Caterine Ibargüen, triple Diamond League Champion and Olympic gold at Rio 2016, is the top local card for games. She will have in the Venezuelan and twice world champion Yulimar Rojas his biggest rival.
Also in action will be Colombian Eider Arevalo, world champion in March of 20 kilometers; Puerto Rican tennis player Mónica Puig, winner of Olympic gold at Rio 2016; Cuban boxers and Olympic champions Julio César la Cruz, in light heavyweights, and Arlén López, in medium, and the Cuban judoka Idalis Ortiz, world and Olympic champion of London 2012 and Rio 2016 in +78 kilos.
They are part of the more than five thousand athletes who will try to honor in Barranquilla the official song of the games entitled "You came to win"
From this Thursday they will have sixteen days to reach it.
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