The debate over the postponing of the Games continues. President of the Pan Am Sports Organization Mario Vasquez Raña says that the Dominican Organizing Committee for the games had offered to install air conditioners in the athletes village. But Pan American Games president, Jose Joaquin Puello, says that now that the service was privatised, the cost would be too high. Vasquez Raña favors postponing the event until October or November. Others say that there is not much difference in temperatures between July and October. Dominican summers range from noon time maximums of 30-34 degrees Celsius to cooler evenings of 26-28 degrees Celsius. The problem is that several countries plan to install their own air conditioners for the comfort of their athletes. Vasquez says that either all the athletes’ apartments get air conditioners or none at all. The Dominican organizers have plans to install fans in the bedrooms. Forty-two heads of Olympic Committees are meeting in Santo Domingo for the Pan American Games General Assembly at the Hotel Jaragua. Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, is also in attendance.
