Who will be watching the Pan Am games?.

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Sassy Angels has a Promo going to win tickets and stuff: https://www.hubgfe.com/community/showthread.php?88822-Sassy-giving-away-02-tickets-to-the-Pan-Am-games-and-more-prizes

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CanadianSpaceAgency ‏@csa_asc 3m3 minutes ago
Best of luck to the 6000+ athletes at the Pan Am and Parapan Am Games! Welcome to Toronto! Go Canada! #TO2015 #YYZ

 

[Wanker]

[h=1]Canada grabs first Pan Am gold with kayaking[/h][h=2]KC Fraser, Hannah Vaughan, Michelle Russell and Émilie Fournel make golden start in women’s K-4 500-metre kayak[/h]

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/pa...nada-grabs-first-pan-am-gold-in-kayaking.html

 

[Wanker]

 

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[McGuinty]

 

[Wanker]

[h=1]Canada leads Pan Am medal count with eight after first day[/h]

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Canadian Pan Am Games medal winners[/h][h=2]A look at Canada's medal-winning athletes on and off the podium.[/h]
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/panamgames/2015/07/11/canadian-pan-am-games-medal-winners.html

 

[Robintheboywonder]

The City placed a black mark on the PanAm games by installing these ridiculous HOV lanes. The cops are now using them to generate cash for the city and causing a disaster during the week to get to work. It pissed off the public and the PanAm games are a bust because of it.

 

[MisterSpicyChocolate]

I'd rather watch Sexy Girls Strip...............for my My Muscular Athletic Manhood.

He Lasts Many Rounds

 

[Wanker]

28 medals so far, 11 gold.

 

[Lukewarm]

35 medals last I heard.

Go Canada Go.

 

[Wanker]

85 medals and counting. 35 Gold, more than the USA.

Now for the grand finale:

Kanye West?!
What, they couldn’t find a Canadian jerk? Justin Bieber was busy?

So Mr. West, the mouthy American rapper, will headline closing ceremonies for the Toronto (Canada) Pan Am Games. Well, that’s one way to kill Pan Apathy once and for all.
Games organizers confirmed Wednesday’s Twitter scoop from, of all people, Canadian basketball team forward Anthony Bennett.
Many of you are thinking, are they nuts?

Ricky Martin, the Mexican pop star, headlined at the last Pan Am Games, in Guadalajara, right? Surely, we should recruit a Canadian superstar to close out Toronto 2015.
Well, actually, Ricky Martin is Puerto Rican, but never mind. It’s a good point.

Canada is speeding toward a record haul of Pan Am gold and bursting with national pride — and we’re capping it off with a notorious American rapper.
No Shania. No Celine. No Hip. No Avril (she’s feeling much better, thanks.) No Alanis. No Buble. No Neil. No Bryan. No Carly Rae. No Justin. No Drake.
No Drake? He’s also a Grammy-winning, chart-topping rap megastar — and he’s from that infamous Toronto ‘hood, Forest Hill.

Even Kanye called him “the hottest rapper in the game” earlier this year, though with Kanye the “except me” is assumed.

If the Pan Am folks wanted notoriety, what about Bieber? In the past few days alone, Justin has posted a nudie of himself and lusted after Kelly Ripa.
On the other hand, I don’t know if Justin represents the best of Canadian character, though he does apologize a lot.

But cast your mind back to Vancouver 2010. The memorable Winter Olympics closing ceremonies were as Canadian as maple pie, including Michael Buble, Avril Lavigne and Neil Young. Michael J. Fox, Catherine O’Hara and William Shatner even took the mike to poke fun at their fellow Canucks.
We get Kanye West.

In case you’ve been comatose or listening to eight-track tapes of Roger Whittaker, let’s recap Kanye’s career.
Frankly, he is best known for storming music awards stages, often under the influence of what he calls “a little sippy sippy” to insult winners he feels are undeserving, notably Taylor Swift.

“You’ve been Kanye'd!” is part of the showbiz lexicon.
He is nearly as famous as his wife, Kim Kardashian, who is expecting their second child and will be a lively sideshow if she, too, comes to Toronto.
I cannot hum any of Kanye’s tunes, but I’m assured by my kid that he is a mega, mega, megastar.

The Pan Am brass are no dummies, despite those HOV lanes. Kanye guarantees a sell-out for the July 26 ceremonies. So what if they had to sell out Canadian content?
Just to be safe, they’ve added ANOTHER American rapper, a fellow by the name of Pitbull. Who the hell names their kid Pitbull? But I’m told he, too, is a big star.

As a Canadian touch, Millbrook, Ont.’s own Serena Rider will join the two Americans. She recorded the Pan Am theme song.
I don’t know what rock legend David Crosby thinks of Serena, but here’s what he tweeted about Kanye last week:

“He can’t write, sing, or play. At all.” And: “He is an egomaniac, he is dumb as a post, he creates nothing, helps no one.”
The rambling of an old fogey? Sure. Crosby Stills Nash and Young were superstars ... in 1968.
Kanye West is a superstar today. Just ask him:

“You are watching the greatest living rock star on the planet,” he declared at a concert last month.
He’s probably right. Good for him. I’ve got nothing against the guy.
Fact is, Kanye West might be the Elvis of the planet right now.

But they didn’t get Elvis to close the Montreal Olympics in 1976. Why would they? Elvis was many things, but he wasn’t Canadian.
Well, look on the bright side. The Rogers Centre roof is bound to be open July 26, if only to accommodate Kanye’s ego.
We've been Kanye'd.

https://www.torontosun.com/2015/07/15/o-kanye-da-yer-kidding

 

[muckin]

Hotels are complaining as they are half empty, restaurants were actually quieter than usual last weekend. I actually found traffic lighter than usual too even with the hov nonsense. I actually overheard someone ask a customer getting a haircut if she was watching the pan am games her answer was what are they lol. Looks to me like they are a bust, not much more than half the tickets sold. I think they chased more torontonians out of the city to avoid the games than visitors drawn in. What a waste of time and money, too many things going on in a city like toronto for an event like this.

 

[Wanker]

7 PM tonight.


[h=1]Canada-U.S. rematch set for Pan Am baseball gold[/h]

 

[Butch]

They sold over 1 million tickets. Who would have thought.

 

[Wanker]

Congrats ladies.

[h=1]2015 Pan Am Games gold could be just the beginning for Canadian women’s basketball team with sights set on Rio Olympics[/h]

 

[Leo]

[h=1]Canada’s De Grasse races to gold in men’s 100 at Pan Am Games[/h]

:YMAPPLAUSE::YMAPPLAUSE::YMAPPLAUSE:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/spo...ns-100-at-pan-american-games/article25639036/

 

[oldguyzer]

Stuck in NYC for four days, NOT ONE network covered the PanAm games in any detail. Bravo to the CBC for their coverage, online and on-air. And bravo to the Canadians who are doing us proud!

 

[peace]

Actually my friends from Washington, D.C. Have access to pan am games...i think it was on espn but then again you have to pay for this cable service.m I think cbc should air the games all days like the Olympics.

 

[Wanker]

We have a new true superstar stud. Won both the 100 and 200 :YMAPPLAUSE::YMAPPLAUSE::YMAPPLAUSE:



Andre De Grasse wins men's 200 metres at Pan Am Games in Canadian record time


The coming-out party of Andre De Grasse — on his way to being household — just keeps on getting faster and better and more exciting.

The sprinting sensation from Markham became the first Canadian to run a sub-20-second 200 metres race, that coming just a few nights after he won gold in the 100 metres at the Pan-American Games.

No Canadian has ever run a sub-10 100 and a sub-20 200, and no Canadian has ever been crowned gold-medal champion in the Pan Ams’ most prestigious sprinting events.
It is two down and one gold medal to go for De Grasse, who will race Saturday night in the 4x100 relay — the opportunity for him to be a triple-gold medal winner and likely Canadian flag bearer at the closing ceremony on Sunday night.

In a sport that is all about speed, this is all happening so quickly. He is only 20 years old. He’s only been at this for three years. He’s nowhere near his sprinting prime — and already he is taking his own breath away and carrying a country along with him for the ride.

“It feels amazing,” said De Grasse, who for one night was not understated. He was pumped by his accomplishment. He was thrilled by a victory not many figured was coming.
“I would have been happy to see him on the podium,” said Canadian head coach Peter Eriksson.

Then he took the middle spot on the podium.

“The first Canadian to run sub-20 seconds,” he said and almost paused as he uttered those words. “It doesn’t get any better than this. It feels like an unreal moment right now.”
The victory in the 200 almost meant more to De Grasse because of his love-hate relationship with the distance. He adores racing 200. He just hates training for it.
It’s more gruelling than the 100. It can be more punishing on the off days.

“It’s a lot of fatigue,” said De Grasse. “It takes a lot out of you.”
He ran the 200 here — it was his choice — because “I know I’m good at it.”

He won’t run the 200 at next month’s world championships in Beijing, just the 100 metres and relay. That’s his coach’s choice. The 200 sprint last night was his sixth race of the Pan Ams, counting heats and semifinals. The hard track at York University hasn’t exactly been popular or giving for the athletes.

“The track takes a lot out of you,” said his coach, Caryl Smith Gilbert. She called De Grasse’s run Friday night “amazing (under the circumstances).

“Probably the best race I’ve seen him run, in terms of how many races he’s run already (here). The Mondo track is a very hard surface, it makes you sore, so recovery is rough. A lot of those guys running tonight didn’t run the 100. And he was up late, ’til like one in the morning, so yesterday (running heats) he was barely alive.

“So to see him recover and come back out of Lane 8, with no one to see, that was a great race, a great race.”
His coach told him to focus on his own race. His coach told him not to worry about his lousy lane placement. She told him to stay relaxed on the straightaway and the race will come back to him.

One thing about De Grasse: He listens.

“Yesterday, I tightened up a little bit. I didn’t focus on my race plan,” he said. “I came back today ... I just wanted to come out and execute.”
Much like the 100, when he crossed the finish line, he wasn’t sure where he had finished. That’s one of the problems of Lane 8. You can’t really see anybody.
“I knew I was close. I saw Jamaica, Rasheed Dwyer. I was waiting for the screen to pup up (with the results).”

The results had De Grasse winning in 19.88, with Commonwealth Games gold-medal winner Dwyer behind him and Alonso Edward of Panama, both at 19.90. The results had De Grasse more excited, more emotional, more exuberant than he was when winning the 100.

“This is an unreal moment right now,” he said. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to compete at home in front of this amazing crowd. They really gave me a lot of energy to fight through it and keep competing.”

Said his coach: “I told him, ‘You’ll never be able to be a double Pan Am champion in Toronto again. And on your clock. It won’t happen. So you’d better take advantage of the time. Have fun and relaxed and just see what happens.’ ”

He is now a double-gold medal champion. He can make it three-for-three tonight if the Canadian relay team that Bruny Surin is so encouraged about comes through.
“They’re better than we were,” said Surin, talking about the 1996 gold-medal team in Atlanta.
On Saturday night, and next month in China, we’ll find out more about that.

For now, De Grasse has accomplished everything individually he came here to accomplish. He didn’t run his greatest 100 and still won. He ran his greatest 200, in a much tougher field, from a much more challenging lane, and now has a championship to remember.

“A lot of people before this didn’t know to pronounce my last name,” he said with a broad smile. “They’d say ‘DeGrassi.’ Everyone knows now my name is DeGrasse. It feels good to know that people know my name and I’m making an impact on the track and field world.”

And it’s only just beginning.

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