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Face-to-Face Inspection for 2022 Games in January 01/12/21
UPDATE on January 15: Centro Caribe Sports president Luis Mejía Oviedo tells
Around the Rings that the visits to Puerto Rico and El Salvador are suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(ATR) Centro Caribe Sports confirmed that it will visit Mayagüez, Puerto Rico and San Salvador, El Salvador in the last week of January.
(Centro Caribe Sports)
The organization decided to make these trips before deciding on the new venue for the Central American and Caribbean Games scheduled for 2022.
The dates were defined in the most recent virtual meeting of the CCS Executive Committee. El Salvador will be visited on January 25-26 and Puerto Rico on the following two days.
Monday, 28 December 2020
Centro Caribe Sports and the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) have paid tribute to Salvadorian official Melecio Rivera, who has passed away after contracting coronavirus.
Rivera, who was 82, held various roles in both table tennis and Central American sport.
These included President of the El Salvador Olympic Committee from 1987 to 1999 and leading the Central American Sports Organization from 1990 to 1994.
Rivera was a Centro Caribe Sports Executive Board member for almost a decade, sitting on the body from 1994 to 2003.
Descanse en paz, Don Melecio Rivera.
Presidente del Comité Olímpico de El Salvador (1987-1999) pic.twitter.com/OEGEI4y8nX Comité Olímpico ESA (@TeamESA ) December 27, 2020
2022 Games Host Not to be Decided in December 12/09/20
(ATR) The Commission for Future Venues of Centro Caribe Sports has recommended traveling to the candidate cities of the 2022 Games, Mayaguez (Puerto Rico) and San Salvador (El Salvador),
Around the Rings has learned.
Mayaguez hosted the event in 2010. (Wikipedia)
A source linked to the regional sports organization assured that the decision of this face-to-face inspection despite the epidemiological situation in the region changes the Executive Committee s plans to decide on the venue this December.
The emerging situation of going out in search of a new host for the 24th Central American and Caribbean Games came after Panama pulled out in July due to the health crisis.