(CRHoy.com) Due to the pandemic and all the delays that the Olympic cycle has suffered, the Central American Games 2021 will change date.
The event that was to be held this year in Santa Tecla (El Salvador) will finally be in 2022.
“Initially, the jousts were scheduled from November 27 to December 12, 2021, but the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic caused the modification in the calendar,” said Henry Núñez, president of the Central American Sports Organization (ORDECA).
The date chosen by the organization for these jousts It is from November 4-19, 2022.
The date changes do not affect the calendar established for the 28 sports that will be in the next Central American Games Santa Tecla 2022.
Among them: Chess, Athletics, Basketball, Handball, Baseball, Bowling, Boxing, Cycling, Swimming, Swimming, Rowing, Equestrian, Fencing, Bodybuilding, Soccer, Golf, Weightlifting, Judo, Karate, Wrestling, Rowing, Softball, Surfing, Taekwondo , Tennis, Table tennis, Triathlon, Volleyball, where Squash will be the exhibition discipline.
The countries confirmed for these jousts are: Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
The Central American Games are in charge of starting the path of the Olympic cycle.
The next contest is the Central American and Caribbean Games, which at the moment is to be decided on the headquarters before the resignation of Panama.
In this case, San Salvador and Mayagüez (Puerto Rico) they ran to host the jousts.
The Pan American Games will be in Santiago Chile in 2023 (from October 20 to November 5) and a year later the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 (from July 26 to August 11).
