The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) constitute a major event in the Americas featuring summer and formerly winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. It is held at a gap of every four years in the year before the summer Olympic Games. There has so far been only one edition of the Winter Pan American Games in 1990. The first Pan American Games were held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 25 February 1951.
