Junior Olympics

Ghana’s Junior Olympics Is Aimed At Creating An Athletic Culture From Infancy

Ghana’s Junior Olympics Is Aimed At Creating An Athletic Culture From Infancy

The Junior Olympics, organised by the Legon Creative Athletics Club (LCAC), is aimed at imbibing the athletic spirit and culture into infants who will become Ghana’s sportsmen and women. Its inaugural edition gathered about 300 kids in 2021. This year’s edition – its second – will happen in Kumasi from June 16. Over 800 kids, with some as young as seven, have registered. “I was introduced to soccer at a younger age and we want to change the narrative,” Benjamin Azamati said in West Texas A&M University’s ‘The Rundown’ podcast. “We want the kids to fall in love with the…
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