I am just going to start off by saying that I am cool and that I stayed home on a Saturday night to do homework. Inevitably, since the Winter Olympics in Torino are going on now I procrastinated and ended up watching them for a few hours before actually getting anything done. I did not see a very many Latin American nations involved in any of the proceedings. This might makes sense because the tropical weather of Latin America makes Winter Olympics faily incompatible with Latin America (except for maybe in the Andes Mountain region). This made me wonder about the Olympics and what the prospects are about Latin America hosting a future festival. I found this article and decided to reproduce it here because it is really short. This was published in a Chinese news publication during the 2004 summer Olympics in Athens. Here you go:
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Mario Vazquez, president of the Pan-American Sports Organization (ODEPA), said in Athens on Saturday that he hopes the Olympics will return to to Latin America after 36 years.
"Eight or nine Latin American countries have the potential" to host an Olympics, the Mexican was quoted as saying by Mexican newspapers.
"Brazil is ready to organize them any day now," said Vazquez, also president of the Association of National Olympic Committees.
Vazquez reminded Argentina "had been a candidate" and that Mexico "already had the Olympics" in 1968.
"Hopefully one day we'll see the Olympic Games return to Latin America," said Vazquez, who has headed the Mexican Olympic Committee for 18 years. He admitted Latin America's chance would be increased on an Olympic host-rotation system. Enditem
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