Guadalajara 2011 Opening Ceremony receives Emmy
By Tom Degun
September 17 - Guadalajara's Opening Ceremony at last year's Pan American Games has received an Emmy Award for costume design after it was watched by a broadcast audience of over 200 million people in every country across North and South America.
September 17 - Guadalajara's Opening Ceremony at last year's Pan American Games has received an Emmy Award for costume design after it was watched by a broadcast audience of over 200 million people in every country across North and South America.
September 13 - Guadalajara is confident of paying off its 399 million pesos (£19 million/$30 million/€24 million) debt from the 2011 Pan American Games by the end of the year in a move that could reignite the Mexican cities' bid for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games.
November 12 - The opening of the Parapan American Games was marked by a spectacular Opening Ceremony at the Telmex Athletics Stadium in Guadalajara, Mexico.
November 12 - Guadalajara, the host of this week's 2011 Parapan American Games in Mexico, today held a symposium on disability rights organised by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Americas Paralympic Committee (APC).
October 30 - The 2011 Pan American Games drew to a conclusion exactly where it begun 17 days ago as the Omnilife Stadium staged a wonderful Closing Ceremony that embraced everything that is colourful, vibrant, passionate and exciting about the Mexican culture.
October 25 - The Guadalajara 2011 Organising Committee have denied claims that their database containing the confidential information of over 1,000 journalists attending the Pan American Games here have been illegally hacked.
October 16 - The Americas Paralympic Committee President Octavio Londoño (pictured) has concluded his formal visit here in Guadalajara, where the 2011 Pan American Games are currently taking place, as he looks to strengthen disability sport in the region.
October 14 - Neither the security fears, construction delays nor the tail end of Hurricane Jova that has caused heavy rainfall across Guadalajara over the past week could prevent the Mexican city from hosting a quite spectacular Opening Ceremony for the 2011 Pan American Games here at the 50,000 capacity Omnilife Stadium.
October 13 - Guadalajara have declared that they are still ready to host the 2011 Pan American Games on schedule despite the tail end of Hurricane Jova battering Mexico's Pacific Coast and producing heavy rain around some of the key sporting venues that will be used for the competition.
October 10 - The Organising Committee for the Guadalajara 2011 Pan American Games have claimed that while minor work still needs to be done to complete several of the sporting venues, they are now optimistic everything will be ready to go when the competition gets underway later this week.
August 24 - Work on the Guadalajara 2011 Pan American Games athletics stadium has fallen behind schedule with the track and field venue badly affected by years of poor planning, political infighting and now an untimely rainy season, leaving it as a muddy mess with less than two months to go until the event begins on October 14.
July 5 - The Guadalajara 2011 Organising Committee are today celebrating a major milestone with just 100 days left to go until the start of the Pan American Games in the Mexican city.
June 29 - A successful project review of Guadalajara's preparations for the 2011 Parapan American Games has been just been completed.
November 5- The 2011 Pan American Games, one of the biggest events on the sporting calendar, could be moved from Guadalajara unless the Mexican city can find a $50 million (£30 million) guarantee within two weeks, they have been warned.
August 4 - Canada has offered to help Guadalajara organise the 2011 Pan American Games in the hope of boosting its own bid to stage the 2015 event in Toronto.
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