Live Sports Video, in alliance with USA Wrestling, will be providing a webcast of the final rounds at the 2008 Pan American Championships, taking place at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.

The webcast will be available at 5:30 p.m. two days of the competition, Friday, February 29 and Sunday, March 2, for Greco-Roman and freestyle.  Coverage of women's freestyle competition on Saturday, March 1 will begin at 4:30 p.m.  It will feature all of the gold medal matches each day and some selected bronze medal matches.

To see the event, visit www.LiveSportsVideo.com and click on the "Pan American Championships" banner on the home page.  Sign in early to avoid missing out on any of the wrestling action.

This year, the competition holds special significance, as a qualifying event for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. 

In all three styles, the top athlete in each weight class from a nation which has not already qualified for the Olympics will qualify that nation to compete in the Beijing Games. Only nations that competed at the 2007 World Championships in each weight class are eligible to qualify through the Pan American Championships. In all, there will be 18 spots in the 2008 Olympics up for grabs during the competition in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Nations expected to compete in the event include Argentina, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, the United States and Venezuela.

The last time the United States hosted the Pan American Wrestling Championships was 1990, when the event was also held at U.S. Olympic Training Center. Other years the event was hosted in Colorado Springs were 1986 and 1989.

Due to the international wrestling rules, there will be gold-medal finals all three days of the championships. These are the time and styles that will be featured each day:

- 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 29: Greco-Roman 
- 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 1: Women's Freestyle
- 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 2: Freestyle