Pan American Games

Pan American Games
an amateur athletic competition, patterned after the Olympic Games and held every four years in a different host city, involving all the nations of the Western Hemisphere.
[1965-70]

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Pan American Games,
a series of athletic contests, patterned after the Olympic Games and held in one of the countries of the Western Hemisphere once every four years, usually during the summer before the Olympic Games.

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