Olympic swimming champion Maggie Mac Neil is one of the Canadian stars competing at the Pan American Games in Chile.
Though the opening ceremony is still a couple of days away, competition at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile began this morning with a men's baseball game between the host country and Mexico. It did not go well for the Chileans, who were routed 16-0.
The Games run through Nov. 5, with more than 6,800 athletes from 41 countries and territories in the Americas and the Caribbean competing in 39 different sports. Canada's biggest haul came when it hosted the 2015 Games in Toronto, where it captured 219 total medals and 78 gold to finish second in the standings. In 2019 in Peru, Canada's output fell to 152 medals and 35 gold, dropping it to fourth place.Track icon Andre De Grasse and swimming phenom Summer McIntosh are among the high-profile athletes skipping the Games, leaving Canada without its biggest star in the two most popular sports.
Toronto was also a launching pad for Jamal Murray, just an 18-year-old incoming college freshman when he scored 22 points in the fourth quarter and overtime to help Canada beat the U.S. for a spot in the men's basketball final. Murray is now a bona fide NBA star who helped Denver to the championship last spring.
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