2024 Bolivarian Games
Logo of the 2024 Bolivarian Games
Host cityAyacucho, Peru
MottoBolivarian Games For All
Spanish: Juegos Bolivarianos Para Todos
Nations13
Opening29 November
Closing9 December
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The 2024 Bolivarian Games, officially 2024 Bicentennial Bolivarian Games (Spanish: Juegos Bolivarianos del Bicentenario 2024), will be the 1st edition of the multi-sport event meant for sports, or disciplines or events within a sport, that are not contested in the Olympic Games, governed by the Organización Deportiva Bolivariana (ODEBO). They will be held in Ayacucho, Peru from 29 November to 9 December 2024 in commemoration of the bicentennial of Battle of Ayacucho.[1]

The Games were originally planned to be held between 6 and 15 December 2024.[1] However, the Government of Peru set the dates of the event from 29 November to 9 December 2024, with the closing day coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Ayacucho.[2]

Host city selection

In June 2021, the mayor of Ayacucho Yuri Gutiérrez presented to the Peruvian Olympic Committee the intentions of the city to host the 2025 Bolivarian Games.[3][4] On 29 July 2021, during the swearing-in of President Pedro Castillo, the Governor of Ayacucho department Carlos Rúa confirmed the intentions of the city to host the 2025 Bolivarian Games, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Ayacucho.[5]

The final bidding was presented on 18 December 2021 at the ODEBO General Assembly held in Guayaquil, Ecuador, a city that also presented a bidding to host the 2025 Bolivarian Games.[6] On the same day, the ODEBO Executive Committee selected Ayacucho to host a special and unprecedented edition of the Bolivarian Games for non-Olympic events in some sports,[7] and named Guayaquil as host city for the 2025 Bolivarian Games.[8]

Participating nations

All 7 ODEBO nations and 2 invited nations is expected to compete in these games.[9]

Sports

Ayacucho 2024 proposes the following 25 sports in 35 disciplines:[7][10]

Marketing

The Games' bid slogan was Bolivarian Games For All – Ayacucho 2024 (Spanish: Juegos Bolivarianos Para Todos – Ayacucho 2024).[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Ayacucho 2024 serán los I Juegos Bolivarianos de los deportes no olímpicos" [Ayacuho 2024 will be the I Bolivarian Games for non-Olympic sports] (in Spanish). ODEBO. 19 December 2021.
  2. ^ El Peruano (17 October 2023). "Normas Legales" (PDF) (in Spanish). Alerta Informativa.
  3. ^ "Ayacucho postulará como sede de los Juegos Bolivarianos 2025" (in Spanish). Huamanga Municipality. 6 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Ayacucho es candidato para ser sede de los Juegos Bolivarianos 2025" [Ayacucho is candidate to host the 2025 Bolivarian Games] (in Spanish). Andina. 6 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Carlos Rua, gobernador de Ayacucho: "Nuestro pueblo sueña con los Juegos Bolivarianos"" [Carlos Rua, mayor of Ayacucho: "Our people dreams with the Bolivarian Games"] (in Spanish). RPP. 29 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Guayaquil candidata a ser sede de los Juegos Bolivarianos 2025" [Guayaquil to host 2025 Bolivarian Games] (in Spanish). EL Telégrafo. 18 December 2021.
  7. ^ a b "Ayacucho será sede de los Juegos Bolivarianos 2024" (in Spanish). El Peruano. 18 December 2021.
  8. ^ "Guayaquil será la sede de los Juegos Bolivarianos 2025" [Guayaquil will host the 2025 Bolivarian Games] (in Spanish). ODEBO. 19 December 2021.
  9. ^ "Certamen encaminado" [Contest directed] (in Spanish). El Peruano. 1 December 2023.
  10. ^ "Danzaq será el anfitrión en Ayacucho 2024" [Danzaq will be the host in Ayacucho 2024] (in Spanish). ODEBO. 6 December 2023.
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