Ongoing Events and Memoirs

This section contains links and material related to ongoing Olympic games held in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as different historical memoirs of 20th century sporting events. It includes free and open access material, as well as archives, held in particular collections. 

  • Memorias. XXIII Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe Barranquilla 2018.
    Official memoirs of the Central American and Caribbean Games held in Barranquilla Colombia in 2018. Includes essays from the organizing committee, and data and results from events by 5,349 competitors from 37 countries and territories.
  • Almanaque das Olimpiadas e Paraolimpiadas
    The website provides the access to Almanaque das Olimpiadas e Paraolimpiadas a magazine published by Voz de Brasília & Instituto Brazil Just. The magazine includes information about the opening ceremonies, the medalists, the closing ceremonies, and other olympics events. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
  • Juegos Olímpicos de la Juventud (Buenos Aires, 2018)
    The website provides updates of sporting events played during the Juegos Olímpicos de la Juventud (Buenos Aires, 2018). This is the first time the event takes place in Latin America and it includes 4012 athletes from 206 countries and a Mixed International Team, made up of athletes from different nations that act under the Olympic flag. The number of male and female athletes is equally distributed. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
  • Chicago, USA, Host to the Third Pan American Games, 1959, Official Bulletin
    It explains the ceremonies and events that took place in the 1959 Pan American Games. The item has been digitized by Google, is part of the HathiTrust digital library, and has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
  • Barranquilla 2018: Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos y del Caribe
    The website provides clips of sporting events played during the 23rd Central American and Caribbean Games held in Barranquilla, Colombia. A total of 5854 of athletes participated representing 37 nations. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
  • 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics
    A collection of websites (4,747 total results) related to the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. International Internet Preservation Consortium member institutions contributed suggested websites for inclusion in the collection. Public seed nominations were also solicited and received.
  • Memorias Oficiales de los Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe (1926-2010)
    The website provides full access to digitized copies of the official memoirs of all the editions of the Central American and Caribbean Games since the first edition in 1926 until 2010 and it includes an introductory essay. The collection was published online in September 2016 by the Organización Deportiva Centroamericana y del Caribe (ODECABE) (the Central American and Caribbean Sports Organization). It has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
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