Boxing offers first results in the Pan American Games in Chile
In the continuation of the second day of the 2023 Pan American Games in Chile, the first results are offered in the sport discipline of boxing. teleSUR
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00:00 Welcome back and we continue with more updated information about the Pan American Games held
00:18 in Santiago, Chile.
00:20 Eduardo Regonesi reports from Chile.
00:22 Eduardo, what are the latest updates so far?
00:30 Hi Araneb, how are you?
00:31 We are actually here live at the Training Olympic Center in the city of Santiago.
00:38 It's been a very, very busy morning.
00:41 Boxing is what's been on the agenda for the second day of the Pan American Santiago 2023
00:46 Games.
00:47 We have a couple of results for you guys.
00:49 Argentina did pretty well this morning, winning two of their matches.
00:55 Kevin Alicoc from Guyana defeated the representative from Panama.
01:00 Brazil defeated Canada.
01:02 And Uruguay did the same as well with Guatemala.
01:06 Cristian Salcedo from Colombia, he had a very, very good match against Nigel Paul from Trinidad
01:12 and Tobago.
01:13 And he said he's coming to Santiago for the gold.
01:16 So we're going to keep an eye on him.
01:18 He's going to do very, very well.
01:20 We're sure he's one of the favorites to take the gold.
01:23 As we said earlier, we were covering the morning shift.
01:27 Right now we're on a break.
01:28 It's a little bit empty, as you can see.
01:30 But the action is going to start over around 5 o'clock local time, where we're going to
01:35 keep an eye on the representatives from Cuba, especially, who are the favorites for this
01:40 discipline, as well as Venezuela and the representative from Haiti.
01:44 One of the athletes is going to be taking the ring against the representative from Colombia,
01:54 Jose Biafra.
01:55 As I said, we are going to be here covering boxing.
01:59 Boxing is what's going to be on the agenda for today.
02:01 And we're going to have all the live updates for you guys.
02:05 As soon as you need us, we'll be here for you.
02:08 And what can we expect at the inauguration ceremony?
02:13 Yes.
02:16 Actually we talked yesterday to the executive director of the Pan American Games, Harold
02:21 May Nichols.
02:22 He told us that we're going to have an amazing show.
02:25 We're going to have a light show, fireworks, artists, a lot of Chilean artists, but a lot
02:30 of international musical artists that are going to be presenting this Friday around
02:35 eight o'clock in the National Stadium of Santiago.
02:40 And despite being on the second day of the Games, the first medals will not be awarded
02:45 until Saturday.
02:46 What can you tell us about this?
02:49 Yeah, that's a good question.
02:52 A lot of people are asking us when are we going to see medals at the ceremony.
02:57 But as you well mentioned, right now it's all preliminary rounds.
03:02 The first medals are going to be this Saturday in a couple of disciplines actually.
03:08 The sports that are going to be handing medals, there's several, but the ones that we want
03:12 to highlight is swimming, mountain bike, which is a sport that is new for the Pan American
03:17 Games, weightlifting, among others.
03:20 Diving is another sport that's going to have their first medals this Saturday.
03:23 And of course, we're going to be there letting you guys know what countries are winning,
03:28 what's the scoreboard, and all the details from this Pan American Games in Santiago,
03:33 Chile.
03:34 Thank you, Eduardo Reonesi, for reporting for us from Santiago at the Pan American Games.
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