{"id":237107,"date":"2025-10-24T14:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237107\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:27:07","slug":"torontos-mayor-chow-makes-cycling-bet-with-l-a-mayor-ahead-of-world-series-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237107\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto&#8217;s Mayor Chow makes cycling bet with L.A. mayor ahead of World Series matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Olivia Chow says she has made a cycling bet with the mayor of Los Angeles, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/10\/24\/toronto-blue-jays-los-angeles-dodgers-world-series-game-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Jays take on the Dodgers in the World Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Game 1 is on Friday at Rogers Centre in Toronto and is scheduled to start at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>Chow revealed the terms of the bet on Breakfast Television on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have something in common, we\u2019re both cyclists. Let\u2019s say we win by six points, she will have to ride her bike for six kilometres, and I told her she needs to start pumping up her bike tires,\u201d Toronto\u2019s mayor said.<\/p>\n<p>She said the bet is based on the number of runs, adding, \u201cit could be 10, it could be 12.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chow said if Toronto loses the bet, then she will ride her bike, in miles. If the Dodgers lose, then Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass will ride her bike in kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not at all worried,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The bet also includes that the mayor who loses the bet will wear the other city\u2019s jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays last appeared in the World Series in 1993. Earlier this week, Toronto clinched a World Series berth in a nail-biter Game 7 of the American League Championship Series against the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/10\/23\/blue-jays-rogers-centre-watch-parties\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The City of Toronto will host free public viewing parties<\/a>\u00a0at Nathan Phillips Square for all Blue Jays home games.<\/p>\n<p>With files from Dilshad Burman, CityNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Olivia Chow says she has made a cycling bet with the mayor of Los Angeles, as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-237107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}