The magic of the Pan American Games: Brilliant unknowns alongside the stars

Part of the thing about the Pan American Games is that they bring together athletes from less relevant countries who are completely unknown athletes, amateurs who can almost reach high levels alongside superstars. There aren’t many of them, but they’re all great.

In Lima, for example, Jamaica brought sprint specialists Elaine Sandra Thompson-Hera and Shirley Ann Fraser-Pryce. In 1987, in Indianapolis, Michael Jordan won the Pan American Games championship.. For example, at the 2023 San Diego Pan American Games, Take Colombian Mariana Pajón, she’s a BMX superstar, obviously she’s winning here again, but she’s a multiple world champion, Olympic champion, multiple Pan American champion , who is also a star in the cycling world.Colombia All over the world, due to his personality type, he is very charming, talented and arguably competes with more amateur girls. They are legends who competed in the Pan American Games.

A similar situation happened to Florencia Borelli in the marathon, where she ended up losing to Mexican marathon runner Citlali Cristian Moscote, who initially performed poorly Strong and ultimately victorious, but for now She is the first Mexican athlete to qualify for the Paris Olympicsis a marathon runner who is preparing to compete for the top ten in the next sports meeting.

Flor Borelli, a 31-year-old mother, trained for track and field competitions and now has achieved important results and set Argentinian and South American records in track and field 3000 meters and marathon; and half marathon. It is a much less developed sport than the Mexican one. The final case is the skeet test, or skeet shooting test.

Vincent Hancock, an American skeet shooter who had just won a gold medal with a Pan American record time, was another standout. Hancock won the first of six World Cups as a 16-year-old and he also won the last three Olympic titles: London, Rio and Tokyo. He also defeated Argentinian boy Federico Gil, who qualified for Paris and worked at home. His father, Horacio Gil, was a grandmaster and marksman. His sister Melissa Gil is also an Olympic representative, which is completely different from the super professionalism of this North American boy, who is a big star.

When Team USA had a BC or D team in gymnastics, diving, track and field, swimming, all of a sudden there was a guy like Hancock who brought prestige to the event. The skeet test was so demanding that the second time around, Federico Gil enters Paris with such a performance that if he follows the template he showed in Santiago, he will not only qualify for the Tokyo final, but also win a silver medal.