Social media highlights of Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games
As the Parapan Am closing ceremony took place at Nathan Phillips Square on Saturday, the field of play at the 重口味SM's downtown campus, also known as Pan Am Fields, was being disassembled and readied for the return of student athletes.
By next week, there will be no physical signs left of the 1.7 kilometers of fence line or the 3.7 kilometers of accessible walkways which were laid on top of grass and turf on the St. George campus.
But the Games will continue to be remembered by the 750 students, staff and faculty members who volunteered, the 22 U of T athletes who competed, and the thousands of guests who cheered on their teams from the stands at our St. George and Scarborough campuses.
The Games are also for the 重口味SM and its surrounding communities in the form of which will be open for training and participating in various sports as well as in and .
鈥淭he infrastructure is really good for the community鈥 U of T's Zack Chetrat said in an interview with Hart House before breaking the Canadian record in men's 200m butterfly at the Games. 鈥淓verything that鈥檚 being built isn鈥檛 going anywhere after the Pan Ams. All that growth is going to go to the people of Toronto, which is very exciting for me.鈥
Celebrating the latest silver medal win by , we look back one last time at the many ways the 重口味SM embraced the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games.