In Chile comes to an end the last day of the Santiago 2023 sports competitions
Our correspondent, Eduardo Regonesi, talks about the most important highlights in the last hours of the nineteenth and last day of competition of the Pan American Games Santiago 2023, just hours before the closing ceremony of the Pan American sports festival. teleSUR
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00:12 >> We now go to Chile.
00:14 The Pan American Games continue.
00:15 We are joined by Eduardo Regonesi.
00:17 Hello, Eduardo.
00:18 What's new there in Santiago?
00:20 >> Hello. Good afternoon.
00:25 Live from Santiago.
00:26 And the first time in a couple weeks that it feels
00:29 like a Sunday afternoon here in Chile.
00:32 There's no sound in the street.
00:35 There's no crowds cheering.
00:36 There's a lot of less traffic right now
00:38 because all the action it's already completed
00:41 for Santiago 2023.
00:43 All the action in regards of sports
00:45 because we still have the closing ceremony,
00:47 which is going to be happening later on tonight.
00:49 It's not going to happen here at the national stadium,
00:51 the stadium that you see behind me.
00:52 It's going to happen at La Florida Bicentenario Stadium,
00:56 which is a couple miles south from here.
00:59 But the main action happened here
01:01 at the national stadium today.
01:02 The last sports were happening.
01:04 It all concluded around 2 p.m. on what was a very,
01:08 very good, well-organized game.
01:11 Very exciting games that gave us a lot of emotions,
01:14 a lot of unexpected results, and a lot of great stories
01:17 that we're going to be covering later on for you guys.
01:19 Let's do a quick update of today's results, shall we?
01:22 Let's start with archery that's happening this morning.
01:25 The United States won the gold.
01:26 Mexico took the gold also on the female side.
01:29 United States winning on the men's side.
01:31 In basketball, this sport is a strange sport for us sometimes.
01:35 It was played in the Spanish stadium.
01:38 It's a very Spanish sport, as you call it, from Spain.
01:41 Mexico got the gold medal against Uruguay
01:44 on the women's front tennis, this discipline.
01:46 And on the men's side, Mexico also got the gold,
01:49 defeating Cuba.
01:50 Argentina got double gold on men's and women's trinket.
01:54 That's another variation of this game.
01:57 On the exciting BMX discipline, this is happening right here
02:01 at the National Stadium.
02:02 We were covering early this morning.
02:04 Of course, BMX freestyle was first introduced in Lima in 2019.
02:08 This is the second time at Pan American levels.
02:10 It also happened at Tokyo 2020.
02:13 It's going to happen at Paris 2024.
02:15 But today, it was the second time at Pan American,
02:18 as we said, and United States took the gold
02:20 in the girls' side.
02:22 Chile took silver.
02:23 And Venezuela, Catherine Seiran, took the bronze medal
02:26 for the women's.
02:27 On the men's side, Argentina, Chile,
02:30 and Brazil completed the podium.
02:32 So a South American podium there on the men's side.
02:35 In golf, Mexico was the winner, followed by Colombia
02:38 and the United States on third position.
02:41 Let's talk about speed skating.
02:43 Unbelievable performance by Colombia.
02:45 We all knew that Colombia was strong in bicycle, in skating.
02:48 But today, they rectified that.
02:51 They went above expectations.
02:53 Just check it out.
02:54 Speed skating, women's 10-meter dash.
02:56 Colombia got first.
02:58 Colombia got second.
02:59 Ecuador got the bronze medal.
03:00 On the men's side, first place, Colombia.
03:03 Second place, Colombia.
03:04 Third place, Chile.
03:06 On the women's 500 meters, it was United States.
03:09 Ecuador and Colombia got bronze.
03:12 And on the men's 500 meter, Colombia again
03:14 with the gold medal.
03:15 Mexico with the silver.
03:18 And Chile with the bronze.
03:20 So Colombia got a podium, at least one person in each podium.
03:23 Two of them with two medals on each podium.
03:26 On the men's 500, there was a bit of a controversy.
03:29 The Chilean athlete was pushed out of the way
03:32 by the Brazilian athlete, making him fall.
03:35 The Brazilian finished in third place, but he was disqualified
03:39 for pushing the Chilean off the field.
03:42 The Chilean, Emmanuel Silva, we met him here.
03:45 He was sitting right where we were.
03:46 He talked to us.
03:47 He was going for gold.
03:48 Sadly, he had to settle for bronze because of the little
03:51 small accident that happened on the court.
03:53 And finally, in table tennis, Brazil defeated Canada
03:57 for the gold.
03:58 So Brazil having a very, very good tournament.
04:01 Let's check out quickly how the standings are going.
04:04 And this is the final standing because there's no more
04:06 competitions.
04:07 As we said, United States, big winner of the competitions,
04:10 124 gold medals, 286 total.
04:14 Brazil doing very well, 66 gold medals, 205 total.
04:18 Mexico, 52 gold medals, 142 total.
04:22 Mexico, big winner.
04:24 Also, those are the top three, the podiums there.
04:26 Let's talk about Cuba.
04:27 Cuba finished fifth with 30 gold medals, 69 total.
04:31 Very good showing by Cuba.
04:34 And also Colombia, 29 gold medals, 101 total.
04:37 A lot of medals for Colombia.
04:38 Not that many goals, but very good performance for Colombia.
04:42 Finally, Argentina finished in seventh.
04:44 Argentina was not doing very well.
04:45 In fact, until yesterday, they were in the 12th position
04:48 with only five or six medals.
04:50 But yesterday they had a strong, strong day, winning
04:52 nine gold medals.
04:53 And today they finished with 17 gold medals, 75 total.
04:58 This is the scoreboard.
05:02 Venezuela closes the top 10 ranking with eight gold
05:05 medals, 44 total.
05:07 So very exciting, very moving table.
05:10 And it's been a very exciting couple of weeks here
05:12 in Santiago, Chile.
05:13 And of course, we're going to keep working for you guys
05:15 to have a complete summary and complete report of everything
05:18 that's going to be tonight's closing ceremony here at
05:21 Bicentenario Stadium in La Florida.
05:23 From Santiago, Chile, I'm Eduardo Regonesi.
05:26 Back to you guys.
05:27 Thank you, Eduardo, as always for the details of what
05:31 is happening on the Pan Am/Recon Games today, especially
05:34 on the last day.
05:35 And we'll be waiting for the closing ceremony as it
05:37 takes place later in the afternoon.