"We didn't want to give him those like in the Pan Am Games."

This is expected to be completed and operational in time for the 2015 Pan Am Games.

The cost of staging the Pan Am Games is astronomical.

Eleven players on this year's team were in the Pan Am Games last summer.

The 1987 Pan Am Games were held at 23 sites total.

"We spent five years preparing to get our best team to the Pan Am Games."

Cruz said he was neither opposed to the Pan Am Games, as such, nor sports.

The sport made its debut at the Pan Am Games.

He also won team gold medals at the 1955 and 1959 Pan Am Games.

Twelve years later he once again did so at the 2003 Pan Am Games.