Dominican Republic in Pan Am Games
The Dominican Republic has
registered athletes in 24 sports for the Guadalajara, Mexico Pan Am
Games this fall, 14-30 October, the Dominican Olympic Committee
announced recently, as reported in Listin Diario. COD president Luis
Mejia said 244 athletes were registered to meet the event's booking
deadline, but the actual team could be smaller.
Mejia said that the Dominican athletes qualified to compete in
badminton, basketball (men's), boxing, archery, equestrian events,
fencing, gymnastics, handball (men and women), judo, sailing, skeet,
swimming, track and field, table tennis, tae kwon do, volleyball, beach
volleyball, weight-lifting and wrestling.
In the previous Pan Am Games that took place in Rio de Janeiro, the
Dominican delegation won 29 medals (six gold, six silver and 17
bronze).
The type of sport that generally attracts people to the north coast
of the Dominican Republic is more likely to be water based, with
windsurfing, kiteboarding, surfing and diving all being very popular,
especially in the tourist towns of Sosua and Cabarete. Swimming in the
beautiful Atlantic ocean is, of course, another possibility. West
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