2019 Pan American Games

The 18th Pan American Games are to take place in 2019. 41 countries from the Americas are expected to participate. The process is yet to begin in 2012 and a country may be elected by 2013.

Possible bids

• Lima, Peru^[1][2]

Lima bid for the 2015 Pan American Games and finished a distant runner up to Toronto.

• Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico is interested in bidding for the 2019 or 2023 Games.^[3] Puerto Rico previously hosted the 1979 Pan American Games in its capital city of San Juan. The western city of Mayagüez is considering presenting a bid after successfully hosting the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games.

• Bogota, Colombia ^[4]

• Santiago, Chile ^{[5] [6]}

During the 2011 Pan American Games, the Chilenan capital had been lobbing for these games, and stated their 2014 South American Games venues are being built to high Panamerican standards.^[7]

• Montevideo, Uruguay^[8]

• United States

During the 2011 Pan American Games, United States Olympic Committee chief, Scott Blackmun said that the United States would be interested in hosting the Pan American Games at some point. ^[9]

• Rosario, Argentina Miguel Lifschitz, Rosario's mayor, said that the the city want to host the 2019 Pan American Games^[10].

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