{"id":296895,"date":"2025-11-21T05:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296895\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T05:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:09:13","slug":"commonwealth-stadiums-new-artificial-turf-surface-designed-to-reduce-knee-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296895\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Stadium&#8217;s new artificial turf surface designed to reduce knee injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Edmonton\u2019s Commonwealth Stadium is undergoing the installation of a new artificial turf playing surface in time for the Elks\u2019 2026 Canadian Football League season.<\/p>\n<p>Although the CFL plans to alter its field dimensions for the 2027 season, the new turf is being laid according to existing league standards, CTV News reports.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of the new turf installation is being covered by the city.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s reported the new turf is designed to reduce the number of knee injuries among both football and rugby players.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full CTV News report, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/edmonton\/article\/commonwealth-stadium-getting-new-elks-turf-for-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton\u2019s Commonwealth Stadium is undergoing the installation of a new artificial turf playing surface in time for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-296895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296895","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=296895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}