Canada’s top 55+ athletes to take over Kamloops in 2020
KAMLOOPS — Our city may have missed out on the 2020 Memorial Cup, but there’s an even bigger celebration of sport slated to take over the Tournament Capital in August of that year. The 2020 Canada 55+ games will welcome over athletes from all across the country who will compete in around 25 different sports.
The games themselves will be just one part of the event that has the potential to inject a significant amount of capital into the local economy.
Thursday morning at the Tournament Capital Centre, the flag for the 2020 Canada 55+ games was officially handed over to the City of Kamloops. While we’re still 22 months away from the games themselves, the ceremony marked the unofficial kickoff to the countdown until the games begin.
“We’ve got great facilities, we’ve got great volunteers and the word is out there across Canada that we’re ready to host and we’re open for business,” City of Kamloops Business and Events Operations Supervisor Sean Smith says.