Rowing and Canoe Venues Qualified as Excellent

The venues being constructed for the rowing and canoe competitions of the XIV Pan American Games in the Rincon Dam, in Bonao, have been qualified as excellent by the Technical Supervisor assigned to the venues by the Pan American Confederation, Ricardo Ibarra. 

In a report addressed to the International Rowing Federation about the works, of which a copy was submitted to the Organizing Committee of the Pan-Am 2003 (COPAN), Ibarra highlights the quality of the venues. 

“The work I am seeing has an excellent level,” states the technician in his report sent to the International Federation, during his most recent visit to the country. “I have encountered the six kilometer of its internal route with its sewage and sidewalks. The bridge is already finished and I have crossed it.”

“A surface or more than 10,000 square meters has been filled with 100 cubic meters,” adds the report. “ A boat house of 54-meter wide and a 24-meter deep, with 8 sections, has been built. There are men´s and women´s restrooms with showers and 15 by 8 meters dressing rooms.” 

Ibarra also stated “there is a doping room, a five-story tower and each story of the tower has a 4 by 4 meters dimension. The VIP room of the FISA (International Federation) is next to the arrival tower and has a 8 by 4 meters surface.”

Likewise, he highlights the completion of the “awarding shore with a 54 x 4 meters surface. Two 24-by-4-meter boat arrival and departure shores have been built.” Likewise, he points out that there have been placed “ the pilots to install the cables and the buoys, as well as 4-by-4-meter floating controls every 500 meters, with a roofed area for judges.”

The coordinator of the rowing and canoe competitions of the Santo Domingo 2003 Games, professor Jose Luis Suero, indicated that the construction of the venues are presently more advanced than when Ibarra made his report, some days ago. At that moment, according to the foreign technician, the work was completed in a 75%.

Suero explained that the rowing and canoe trial competitions would be held in July, in the venues, which will be ready at the time. 

It is expected that more than five thousand athletes will compete in 35 sports, during the XIV Pan American Games. The 42 countries members of the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) have already pre-registered. 

The countries that have already pre-registered in the different competitions are the United States, Cuba, Brazil, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, Ecuador, Bolivia, Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala and Puerto Rico.

Other countries that have pre-registered are: Jamaica, Haiti, U.S. Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Barbados, Bahamas, Bermuda, Belize, Santa Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent, Netherlands Antilles (Curazao, Boanire, San Martin, San Eustatius and Saba), Aruba, Trinidad and Tobago, Cayman Islands Dominica, Antigua, Surinam, Granada and the Dominican Republic, which as the host country has a mandatory participation in the competitions of the 35 sports.

The sports to be contended are: water sports (swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo), archery, athletics (track and field, marathon), badminton, basketball, baseball, bowling, boxing, canoe, cycling, equestrian, fencing, water ski, football, gymnastics, weightlifting, field hockey, judo, karate, wrestling, roller skating, jai alai, modern pentathlon, racquetball, rowing, softball, squash, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, triathlon, sailing, volleyball (beach and indoor).

Source: http://santodomingo2003.com

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