Ghana’s participation in next week’s 2010 DCI World Para-cycling Championship in Canada is in doubt as authorities are yet to secure visas and finalise travel arrangements for the para-cyclists who are representing Ghana in the competition. The nine-member team is originally scheduled to depart Accra for Canada Saturday August 14, arriving on August 15, two [...]
Read the rest of this story »It was easy in retrospect in the 1912 Olympic Stadium late on Friday night to say you had seen it coming, that the defeat which struck down the mighty Lightning Bolt had not arrived entirely out of the blue. The amateur psychologists, the budding Freuds among us, might have read the runes in the Jamaican’s [...]
Read the rest of this story »Minister of Youth and Sports, Ms Akua Sena Dansua has said that Ghana will not allow the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to coerce her into engaging in any action that conflicts with her laws. Ghana for a year now has been dialoging with the IOC to end the impasse that has engulfed the Ghana Olympic [...]
Read the rest of this story »Ghana clinched two more medals at the ongoing Africa Athletics Championship in Kenya. The men and women’s 4 by 100 meter relay teams both won bronze in the finals respectively. Aziz Zakari anchored the men’s relay team to third place with a time of 39.31 seconds behind Nigeria and South Africa. The women’s relay quartet [...]
Read the rest of this story »After 11 months in exile Caster Semenya, South African 800-metre world champion, is reportedly set to be cleared to race against women. According to a report in The Telegraph, the IAAF and ASA is preparing to make the announcement in the next few days, thus ending one of the biggest scandals to engulf sport. Semenya [...]
Read the rest of this story »GNA – The Volta Region Media Eleven football team on Monday held the Regional Police Service team to a one-all drawn game in a friendly football match to mark this year’s World Press Freedom Day. The Media team captained by goalkeeper Anthony Bells Kafui Kanyi took the game to their opponents’ right after the referee’s [...]
Read the rest of this story »By MARTIN FENNELLY | The Tampa Tribune * Bulls Report: Blog updates TAMPA – Sam Barrington, South Florida’s next starting middle linebacker, is not ordinary. On spring break, while other college kids romped in Cancun and Panama City, he went to: Ghana. That’s in West Africa, kids. “It was real, nothing but real,” Barrington said. [...]
Read the rest of this story »Ghana’s first professional Skier to participate in the Winter Olympics, Kwame Nkrumah Achampong, has said he is quitting from the sport. “I don’t think I would want to go through the whole process again, so that was my first and last ever Olympics, somebody else will have the privilege of representing Ghana in future Olympics.” [...]
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