Rugby player Marcos Moneta and paddler Sabrina Ameghino will wear the national insignia in the tournament that will begin on October 20 in Chile. The Argentine delegation already has its flag-bearing representatives for the opening ceremony of the next Pan American Games Santiago de Chile, which will begin on Friday, October 20. For the first time, in a competition of this nature, there will be a champion athlete in the men's field and another among women, a modality that began at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games. The process of electing the Argentine flag bearers had two stages. In the first instance, the National Federations could propose two candidate athletes from their respective sports, one male and one female. Then, the candidatures received were submitted to the Athletes Commission of the Argentine Olympic Committee (COA), which put them up for consideration and election by its members through a voting system. The four chosen athletes (two men and two women) who were preselected to carry the flag were informed to the board of directors, which evaluated proposals and defined the names finally distinguished. Moneta is a key member of the Argentine Sevens rugby team, Los Pumas '7, which has already qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The 23-year-old winger from Buenos Aires was a key element in coach Santiago Gómez Cora's team that won the bronze medal in the last Olympics. Tokyo 2020, held in 2021. He also won the gold medal at the Asunción 2022 South American Games, where he became captain of the team.