{"id":21245,"date":"2024-07-10T19:16:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T19:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21245"},"modified":"2024-07-10T19:17:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T19:17:37","slug":"kfc-summer-showdown-kicks-off-to-transform-table-tennis-in-guyana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/kfc-summer-showdown-kicks-off-to-transform-table-tennis-in-guyana\/","title":{"rendered":"KFC Summer Showdown Kicks Off to Transform Table Tennis in Guyana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Eric Collymore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highly anticipated KFC Summer Showdown officially began over the weekend, promising to revolutionize the landscape of table tennis tournaments in Guyana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hosted by the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), the event commenced with competitors across the Under 15, Under 19, and Senior categories vying for top honors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organizer Chelsea Edghill of Edge Sports Management (ESM) expressed her enthusiasm for contributing to sports development during the opening ceremony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She highlighted the invaluable support from both government and private sectors in bringing the tournament to fruition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) President Godfrey Munroe extended his gratitude to the event\u2019s sponsors, emphasizing the importance of tournaments in refining athletes&#8217; skills and fostering community engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Younger athletes are competing for trophies and vouchers, while senior players have their eyes set on the coveted $250,000 cash prize in both male and female categories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tournament, generously sponsored by KFC, the National Sports Commission, Lucozade, and Mike\u2019s Pharmacy, underscores a collaborative effort to elevate sports excellence in Guyana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eric Collymore The highly anticipated KFC Summer Showdown officially began over the weekend, promising to revolutionize the landscape of table tennis tournaments in Guyana. Hosted by the Guyana Olympic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21247,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245\/revisions\/21247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}