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MEET & GREET

CENTRAL AMERICAN
AND CARIBBEAN

OLYMPIC SPORTS At the meeting of the Central
American and Caribbean
ORGANIZATION Sports Organization, in
Panama City, greeting Luis
RECOGNIZES Mejia, President of the
Central American and
THE IFBB Caribbean Sports
Organization (CACSO) and
IOC member.
lPresident Santonja’s project to
integrate the IFBB into Olympism The Executive Committee of
continues to move forward steadily. the Central America and the
On the past 30 of November, at Caribbean Sports
th
their meeting in Panama, the Organization (CACSO) at
Executive Committee of the Central their Executive Council
American and Caribbean Sports Meeting in which IFBB was
Organization (ODECABE/CACSO) recognized, and
voted in favour of the official Bodybuilding and Fitness
recognition of the IFBB, and the were included for its
inclusion of Bodybuilding and Panama 2022 Games as
Fitness as medal disciplines in the medalist sport
next edition of the Central American
and Caribbean Games, to be
celebrated in Panama in 2022.
The decision made by the
ODECABE is another important step
towards integrating the IFBB into
Olympism, as well as a motivation to
all Bodybuilding & Fitness
performers in the area. It is also an
important acknowledgement to the
hard work of IFBB officials, such as
Ing. Eduardo Abdalah, -President of
the Pan American Confederation for
Bodybuilding & Fitness-, and Gral.
Juan Santiago Estrada –IFBB special
adviser-, who work permanently with
President Santoja in order to achieve
these important goals.

BODYBUILDING AND
FITNESS BOOMING IN

AMERICA

lBodybuilding and Fitness are very popular in
America, and medalist sports at the Panamerican
Games. IFBB participated at the recent Panamerican
Games which took place in Lima 2019, in an event
that was celebrated in a fully packed “Coliseo
Mariscal Cáceres” auditorium, one of the
magnificent world class facilities prepared for these
Games, with huge spectators capacity, evidencing
the great expectation created by our sport at its
Olympic Pan American official debut.

President of the Pan American Olympic Organization,
Ing. Neven Ilic, in a nice talk with President Santonja and
General Santiago Estrada (IFBB Special Advisor) at the
Opening Ceremony of the Panamerican Games.

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