{"id":8209,"date":"2018-12-19T15:07:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T15:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panamsports.org\/?post_type=news-sport&#038;p=8209"},"modified":"2020-03-09T14:25:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T14:25:57","slug":"chile-presents-the-organizing-committee-of-the-santiago-2023-pan-american-games","status":"publish","type":"news-sport","link":"https:\/\/www.panamsports.org\/en\/news-sport\/chile-presents-the-organizing-committee-of-the-santiago-2023-pan-american-games\/","title":{"rendered":"CHILE PRESENTS THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE SANTIAGO 2023 PAN AMERICAN GAMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em>In the presence of Chilean president, Sebastian Pi\u00f1era, and Panam Sports President, Neven Ilic, the Organizing Committee for the most important sports event in the region was announced at La Moneda Palace. This Committee is composed of nine professionals who are on a mission to make the biggest Games in the history of Chile a reality.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SANTIAGO, CHILE (December 18, 2018) \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The Santiago 2023 Pan American Games Organizing Committee was chosen several weeks ago, however, it was the Chilean president, Sebastian Pi\u00f1era, who would announce the news publicly to the media and the continent.<\/p>\n<p>The highest sports authorities were called together at La Moneda Palace, including Panam Sports President, Neven Ilic, for the announcement of the nine professionals who will work tirelessly to deliver the mega sporting event.<\/p>\n<p>The Santiago 2023 Organizing Committee\u2019s chosen leaders are the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fernando Gonzalez<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former tennis player, three-time Olympic medalist<br \/>\n<strong>Federico Valdes<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Director of the University of Development in Chile<br \/>\n<strong>Miguel Angel Mujica<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President of the Chilean Olympic Committee<br \/>\n<strong>Aquiles Gomez<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Vice President of the Chilean Olympic Committee<br \/>\n<strong>Alberto Vargas<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Secretary General of the Paralympic Committee of Chile<br \/>\n<strong>Soledad Bacarreza\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Director of the School of Sport at the AIEP Professional Institute<br \/>\n<strong>Pamela Camus\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Member of the International Women Forum (IWF)<br \/>\n<strong>Cristian Aubert\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Former General Manager of Azul Azul<br \/>\n<strong>Karl Samsing<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Businessman, Former National Skier<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are kicking off the Santiago 2023 Organizing Committee, the people in charge of organizing our Pan American Games. We are extremely happy because this is the most important event that we have ever hosted in our country and it calls for everyone\u2019s effort,\u201d said Chilean Sports Minister, Pauline Kantor.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Gonzalez, Head of the Santiago 2023 Organizing Committee and three-time Olympic Medalist in Athens 2004, and Beijing 2008, was emphatic in pointing out that: \u201cI am extremely happy and proud for these Games to be realized here in Chile. We are a team who loves sports and we will give our all for the Games to be held in the best way possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neven Ilic, Panam Sports President, was also at La Moneda Palace as a special guest invited by President Sebastian Pi\u00f1era. At the end of the ceremony, he mentioned that \u201cI am delighted that they have selected the Organizing Committee. The people who have been chosen are great professionals full of sports knowledge and of course I wish them nothing but success on this great challenge. As Panam Sports, we will help in any way we can.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the presence of Chilean president, Sebastian Pi\u00f1era, and Panam Sports President, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8207,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news_sports":[69],"class_list":["post-8209","news-sport","type-news-sport","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_sports-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CHILE PRESENTS THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE SANTIAGO 2023 PAN AMERICAN GAMES - Panam Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panamsports.org\/en\/news-sport\/chile-presents-the-organizing-committee-of-the-santiago-2023-pan-american-games\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CHILE PRESENTS THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE SANTIAGO 2023 PAN AMERICAN GAMES - 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