PanAm Games: Canada Awarded Silver Medal

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Received: 7/28/07 8:24:56 PM 
From:  "Gilles LeBlanc" <gleblanc(at)softball.ca> 


Subject:  Pan_Am_Games:_Canada_Awarded_Silver_Medal_/_Jeux_Panamér9r
 
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FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

July28th, 2007

 

PanAm Games: Canada Awarded Silver Medal

 

(Cityof Rock, Brazil) – Bad weather was the story again in City
of Rock, Brazil.Canada was scheduled to play Venezuela at 9:00am
EST this morning, but anotherday of rain caused the game to be
delayed to 2:00am EST instead. Come gametime, the rain did not
stop and the field conditions were very poor, forcingthe XV Pan
American Games Rio 2007 Committee (CO-RIO) to cancel the medalround.

 

Asa result, the United States were awarded with the gold medal,
as they hadqualified for the Grand Final with a 7-0 win over
Canada last night. SinceCanada and Venezuela were not able to
play their game to decide who would meetthe United States for
the gold medal, both teams were awarded with the silvermedal.
It was the Canadian softball team’s third consecutive silver
medal atthe Pan American Games.

 

Thecancellation of the medal round put an end to a very difficult
week forsoftball at the Pan American Games. After a violent windstorm
caused damages tothe main stadium, all games were cancelled on
Monday, which was supposed to bethe first day of competition.
After rain washed out all the games on Tuesday aswell, CO-RIO
was forced to change the tournament schedule to a two poolround-robin
format to be played on two separate fields. Teams were finally
onthe main field on Wednesday morning to open the Pan Am schedule,
but poor fieldconditions on the second field forced schedule
changes once again and delayedyet another group of games. However,
all teams were able to complete theirround-robin schedule, and
quarter-final and semi-final games were also playedon Friday.

 

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Formore information, please contact:

 

GillesLeBlanc

Sport/RecreationManagement Intern

MBAin Sport and Recreation Management

Universityof New Brunswick

 

Coordinator,Marketing and Communications

 

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