{"id":822086,"date":"2026-07-24T02:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822086\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T02:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:01:08","slug":"photos-bc-summer-games-kicks-off-in-kelowna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822086\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: BC Summer Games kicks off in Kelowna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              PHOTOS: BC Summer Games kicks off in Kelowna<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 3:28 pm Thursday, July 23, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 BC Summer Games have begun. <\/p>\n<p>Over 3,000 athletes, coaches and officials are in town as the Summer Games had its first day of competitions in Kelowna. <\/p>\n<p>The games take place from July 22 to 26, with youth athletes from across B.C. competing in 19 categories of sport.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, July 24, the first competitions were held.<\/p>\n<p>Kayakers took to Parkinson Recreation Centre in the morning to play a Kayak Polo tournament. <\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, basketball teams played a tournament at Okanagan Mission Secondary. <\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon, H20 Adventure hosted solo artistic swimming competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimate frisbee, towed water sports, and sailing competitions were <a href=\"https:\/\/kelownacapnews.com\/2026\/07\/23\/wildfire-smoke-postpones-some-bc-summer-games-events-in-kelowna\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">postponed<\/a> due to wildfire smoke. <\/p>\n<p>This is the first time Kelowna has hosted the BC Summer Games since 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: BC Summer Games kicks off in Kelowna Published 3:28 pm Thursday, July 23, 2026 The 2026 BC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[903,49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-822086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822086","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=822086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}