(ATR) The 2018 Paralympic Games fill this week in PyeongChang.
The opening ceremony on March 9 marked the beginning of the 10-day competition. More than 670 athletes will compete across the six winter para sports of alpine skiing, biathlon, cross country skiing, ice hockey, snowboard and wheelchair curling.
The IPC is live streaming more than 300 hours of event coverage from PyeongChang through its website www.paralympic.org. IPC communications director Craig Spence recently said:
The PyeongChang 2018 Paralympics conclude on March 18.
PanAm Sports Executive Convenes in Lima
Panam Sports leaders return to Lima this week to continue monitoring the preparations for the Pan American Games.
Between Monday and Wednesday the members of the Executive Committee of the continental sports organization, headed by its president the Chilean Neven Ilic and its general secretary the Mexican Ivar Sisniega will have direct contact with the Organizing Committee.
COPAL says that important advances have been made in the last months, especially in the most complex construction, the Pan American Village.
The Lima 2019 Pan Am Games will feature more than 6,700 athletes from the 41 countries in the continental association. These elite athletes will compete in 39 sports and 62 disciplines from July 26 to Aug. 11, 2019.
The Parapan Am Games will follow from Aug. 23 to Sept. 1 with more than 1,800 athletes competing in 17 sports.
FIFA Council meets in Bogota
Leaders of the FIFA Council convene in Bogota, Colombia, on Friday, March 16.
It is expected the Council will approve the use of video assistant referees (VAR) at the next World Cup in Russia.
Recently FIFA voted to add video review to its rules clearing the way for competition organizers to adopt it at their events .
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The FIFA Council in Bogota will be chaired by the body's president, Gianni Infantino, who has long said that World Cup referees must get high-tech help to review key decisions at the tournament. However Infantino has admitted that the VAR is far from perfect.
The FIFA World Cup in Russia begins on June 14.
Written by Javier Monne, Miguel Hernandez
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