2024 Olympic Games

2024 Olympic Games: Ghana Disqualified From Men’s 4x100m After Late Baton Changeover

2024 Olympic Games: Ghana Disqualified From Men’s 4x100m After Late Baton Changeover

Team Ghana failed to progress to the final of the Men's 4x100m relay event at the 2024 Olympic Games after a late baton changeover. The team was disqualified as a result, making their time of 38.62s invalid. Their time would have earned the quartet a 6th place finish. Rasheed Saminu, the first leg, got off to a good start, but he struggled with his changeover to the second leg, Benjamin Azamati, which affected the momentum of their race. Azamati got his change to the third leg, Ibrahim Fuseini, right, but the final change to the anchor leg, Joseph Paul Amoah,…
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11 Down, One Standing; Ghana’s Olympic Boxing Hope In Disarray

11 Down, One Standing; Ghana’s Olympic Boxing Hope In Disarray

Ghana has only one boxer in contention in the qualifiers for the 2024 Olympic Games ongoing in Senegal. Out of the 12 boxers that made up the Black Bombers squad to Dakar, Senegal for the qualifiers, only one boxer was able to make it to the semis. Theophilus Kpakpo Allotey is the only Ghanaian boxer who was able to reach the semi-finals of the qualifiers after defeating Ugandan boxer Fathia Shafik Mawanda in their flyweight contest. Abdul Wahid Omar, Jonathan Tetteh and Joseph Commey who won medals at the 2022 Commonwealth Games for Ghana were all eliminated in the qualifiers…
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