Organización Deportiva Suramericana

ODESUR - South-American Games Organization

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• ODESUR Symbols
• IX Games, Medellin

• ODECA - Central-American Games Organization
• ODECABE - Central-American and Caribbean Games Organization
• PASO - Panamerican Games Organization
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The South American Games Flag. The shades of blue of the logo may vary - sometimes its a darker shade and sometimes its this lighter shade. The continent of South America should be visible in against the blue globe. The first 2 editions of these games were known as Los Juegos de Cruz del Sur (The Southern Cross Games).
Erik Bell, February 25, 2008.

The full list of all the editions of the South American Games is as follows (sources http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juegos_ODESUR and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_Games):

1. Games 1978, La Paz, November 3-12
2. Games 1982, Rosario (flag here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bandera_de_la_Ciudad_de_Rosario.svg) November 26-December 5
3. Games 1986, Santiago November 28-December 8
4. Games 1990, Lima December 1-10
5. Games 1994, Valencia November 19-28
6. Games 1998, Cuenca, October 21-31
7. Games 2002, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Curitiba, and Belém, August 1-11
8. Games 2006 Buenos Aires, November 9-19
9. IX Games 2010 Medellin, March 17-30 (even though the games were officially hosted by Medellin, several events took place in nearby Municipalities: Bello, Copacabana, Envigado, Guarne, Guatapé, Itagüí, Rionegro and Sabaneta.

Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juegos_Suramericanos_de_2010#Subsedes

Flag of the IX Games, Medellin

image by Esteban Ribera, 6 September 2010
Picture taken on March 23, 2010, outside a hotel where some athletes were staying.

The flag of the IX Games held in Medellín, is a white horizontal flag with the logo (http://2.bp.blogspot.com) on the middle, as seen in this image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Medellin-2010.jpg

The Games logo was a proposal among 120 that were submitted, and it was officially awarded on December 3, 2009 to María Paulina Escobar Soto, 22, who was at the time studying her 8th Semester of Graphic Communication and Publicity at the Universidad de Medellín. She was awarded a prize of $15 million pesos (USD 7,500). The design was based on the infinity symbol (called lemniscate in math): ∞.
Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juegos_Suramericanos_de_2010#Logotipo_de_los_Juegos

Also, even though the games were officially inaugurated on March 19, 2010 (as the poster in this image shows: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Seminario_Periodismo_Deportivo.jpg) there were some events that were held as early as March 17.
Esteban Ribera, 6 September 2010