Chile Pan American Games enter their 10th day
From Chile, journalist Eduardo Regonesi updates us on the 10th day of the Pan American Games. teleSUR
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00 The Pan American Games 2023 at Santiago, Chile continue.
00:18 The journalist Eduardo Reonesi is there with 144Us.
00:21 Good morning, Eduardo.
00:23 What can you tell us about today's 14 events?
00:26 Good morning, how are you?
00:30 Very very cold morning here in Santiago, Chile.
00:33 It's a cold morning, it's a holiday today so we expect a lot of people despite the cold
00:37 weather and in fact we had a large crowd early this morning where we saw action on men's
00:43 field hockey where Brazil defeated Trinidad and Tobago 2-1.
00:47 Right now the United States is playing Canada in field hockey.
00:52 We also have a large crowd here at the tennis court where Brazilian athlete is playing the
00:58 United States, Brazilian Laura Pigosi is defeating Jamie Loeb from the United States.
01:04 It was 7-5 the first set and right now the second set is 5-3 to the American with a break
01:09 point so this match might go on to a third set.
01:14 Let's talk a little bit about what happened last night at beach volleyball in Peñalén
01:18 Park.
01:19 Two very exciting semi-finals.
01:20 First up it was the Cuban couple with Jorge Alayo and Nelson Diaz defeated the Americans
01:27 Logan Weber and Hagen Smith.
01:30 It was 21-15 and 21-13 it was resolved in two sets and of course whenever Cuba plays
01:36 United States in any sport, in any discipline, it's always an attractive match.
01:39 The whole world is watching and this time it was a victory for the Cubans who are going
01:44 to move on to the final to play for the gold medal.
01:48 And the rivals is going to be Brazil.
01:50 Brazil defeated the Chilean couple of Esteban and Marcos Grimal.
01:54 It was Andre Loyola and Jorge Soto from Brazil who had a very, very good match.
01:59 It was 21-13 the first set and 21-17 the second set.
02:03 The Chilean cousins didn't have a good night yesterday.
02:07 They had a lot of unforced errors.
02:09 They were not precise with the serve and the Brazilian couple was very strong on defense
02:14 taking the match on all the two sets and making it to the gold medal match.
02:20 Chile is going to have to settle to play for the bronze against the United States and as
02:24 we said Cuba is going to play Brazil for the finals all happening this afternoon around
02:30 6pm.
02:31 In another semifinal on the women's side, Brandi Wilkerson and Melissa Humana-Paredes
02:35 from Canada defeated the Argentines Maria Galay and Fernanda Pereira.
02:41 And on the other semifinal Brazil made it to the final also when they defeated the Americans
02:46 Sarah Murphy and Corrine Cuicu.
02:48 It's all happening today around 6pm and we're going to be having all the details for you.
02:54 Quick review, indoor volleyball, the other volleyball that's happening inside, Dominican
03:00 Republic won the gold against Brazil 3-0 while Mexico got the third place defeating Argentina
03:06 for the bronze medal.
03:08 That's our report from Santiago, Chile.
03:09 I'll go back to you guys in the studio.
03:12 Thank you Eduardo Regonesi for reporting for us from the Pan American Games 2018 in Chile.