{"id":373494,"date":"2026-06-24T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/373494\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:52:09","slug":"olympic-torch-could-pass-through-fresno-for-2028-summer-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/373494\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Torch could pass through Fresno for 2028 Summer Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Olympic Torch could pass through the streets of Fresno in 2028 on its way to Los Angeles for the Summer Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer is pushing for the idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">His office has already been in negotiations with LA28, the Los Angeles Organizing Committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Thursday, he plans to ask the city council for approval of an 18-page agreement on potential participation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to the document, the agreement would create a local community task force that would select a route, torchbearers and provide marketing and safety guidelines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Olympic committee has not yet announced the torch relay route, but it will travel through all 50 states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The 2028 Olympic opening ceremony takes place July 14, 2028.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Olympic Torch could pass through the streets of Fresno in 2028 on its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[151450,151449,112,114,113,10332,151448,294],"class_list":["post-373494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-151450","tag-2028-summer-games","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-jerry-dyer","tag-olympic-torch","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}