Mayaguez will host CAC Games 2010

The Central American and Caribbean Games (or CACGs) are a multi-sport regional championships event, held quadrennial (every 4 years), typically in the middle (even) year between Summer Olympics. The Games are for countries in Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Bermuda, and the South American countries of Surinam, Guyana, Colombia and Venezuela. The Games are overseen by the Central American and Caribbean Sports Organization (CASCO) (the organization also goes by the acronym 'ODECABE' (pronounced 'O-da-cob-be') from its full Spanish name: Organizacin Deportiva Centroamericana y del Caribe). They are designed to provide a step between sub-CACG-region Games held the first year following a Summer Olympics (e.g. Central American Games) and the Continental Championships, the Pan American Games, held the year before the Summer Olympics. The most recent CACGs occurred in July 2006 in Cartagena, Colombia. The next edition will take place in the second half of July 2010 in Mayagez