May 26, 2004

COSUD, the Confederación Sudamericana Universitaria de Deportes, or South American University Sports Confederation, has announced that the 2006 South American University Games will be held in Columbia and the 2008 games in Brazil.

COSUD was founded in 1985, but the organization lay dormant until this past year when it was revived.

FISU also announced that Harbin, China, host of the 1996 Asian Winter Games, had expressed interest in hosting the 2009 Winter World University Games.

Belgrade, the Rhône-Alpes Region in France and Monterrey, Mexico have expressed interest in the 2009 summer games.  Discussions regarding Edmonton or Montreal as Canada's 2009 candidate city have yet to be announced. 

December 10, 2002

Cartagena, Colombia was recently names host of the next Central American and Caribbean Games to be held in 2006.  

Colombia has also been named host of the 2005 Bolivarian Games.

Central American and Caribbean University Games abruptly canceled

July 19, 2002

The Central American and Caribbean University Games scheduled for August 2-11 in Medellin, Colombia have been suddenly canceled. Early indications are that security concerns had caused several of the teams to cancel their entries.

Meeting to decide future of South American games

April 17, 2002

The South American Sports Organization (ODESUR) will meet April 18 in Asuncion, Paraguay, to discuss the immediate future of the 2002 South American Games.

Violence in Bogota, Colombia has forced the postponement of the games that had been scheduled for this spring.

The Olympic Committee of Peru was approached this past week as an alternate site but announced that without government support and authorization they can not host the games.

Brazil is still being mentioned as a possible alternate site with events spread across the nation in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba and Manaus.

South American Games update

April 2002

After one change of location and a month's postponement, the South American Sports Organization has now canceled the South American Games that were to take place in Bogota, Colombia in early May.

Several nations, including Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay had decided not to come to the games due to the upsurge in violent acts in Colombia this year.

Sports officials will meet later this month to discuss the possibility of new dates and a new location for the games.

Sao Paolo, Brazil has expressed interest in the 2006 Games.

South American Games postponed one month

April 2002

In an extraordinary session last month of the Organización Deportiva Suramericana (ODESUR), South American Sports officials decided to postpone the 2002 South American games. Concern has been expressed by several countries over political unrest and violence in Colombia, and the safety of the athletes. The games have been moved back to May 3-12. The unrest continued in early April when a car bomb exploded in the city of Villavicencio, killing twelve and injuring more than sixty.