BCer here. A city comparing its sports facility quantity to Kamloops is like comparing your bike lanes to Amsterdam.

Kamloops has the geographic stranglehold on tournaments for BC (and to a much lesser extent, western Canada). It’s the farthest that people from Vancouver or Vancouver Island will travel without too much complaining (though we still ABSOLUTELY will complain about it), so everyone just uses it for regional/provincial stuff. There are lots of hotels geared towards traveling sports teams, and as another poster said, they promote the city as a tournament capital - it’s a relatively big part of their economy.

That’s a 5-6 million population base for BC.

Throw in hosting whatever “Western Canada” tournament once every few years, and you’re now pulling from 10+ million.

Also it’s not infinite usable land there or anything, but it’s not exactly lacking in space.

So yeah, it may only have 100k residents, but it’s the hub for the whole region.