Earlier this year the Pan-American Games went off smoothly—albeit way over budget—in Rio de Janeiro.

今年早些时候，里约热内卢成功举办了泛美运动会（尽管远远超出预算）；

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Brazil took the gold medal at the Pan-American Games in Rio DE Janeiro, thrashing the USA U-20 side 5-0 in the final.

巴西队在里约热内卢举行的泛美运动会女足决赛中，以5 - 0大胜美国20岁国家队获得金牌。

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The flame will be transferred to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico for the Pan-American games which will run from July 17 to August 1.

火焰将被转移到马亚圭斯，波多黎各的泛美运动会将于7月17日开始，至八月一日结束。

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Rio de Janeiro's successful staging of the Pan-American Games in 2007 and their future hosting of the 2014 World Cup seemed to bolster its prospects, but the IOC recently noted that it would not be capable of providing the level of security and safety required for the Games.

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All this has paid off: Venezuela's football team, long embarrassing also-rans in South America, has become competitive, and the country has won many more medals at the two latest Pan-American games than in the past.

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Her thirteenth-place finish in the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada qualified her for Sydney in 2000.

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