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Michael Osei

2 years ago

GHANA DISQUALIFIED FROM COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEN?S 4X100M FINAL AFTER TECHNICAL BLUNDER

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An avoidable mistake has denied Ghana of a spot at Sunday's expected 2022 Commonwealth Games last.


The Gambia will currently replace Ghana in the last men's race after a specialized infringement.


Group Ghana had, without a second to spare, pursued a choice to rest Joseph Paul Amoah on the anchor leg. Nonetheless, they didn't illuminate race authorities one hour to the race, as the principles require. This assignment should be finished by mentors of the group.


Watchers on TV might have seen that not long before the race, it was Amoah's name that blazed on the screen, and not Abdul Rasheed Sameenu, who was on the track.


Ghana handled Sean Safo-Antwi, Benjamin Azamati, Barnabas Aggerh and Sameenu, in a specific order. Notwithstanding their completing third in 39.05s, Ghana should watch the last from the sidelines. There has been no word at this point from the group authorities. Deborah Acquah, who holds the public record in the long leap, won the bronze decoration in her occasion at the continuous Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Sunday, August 7.


Acquah came in third after a jump of 6.94m in the last, just behind Australia's Brooke Buschkuehl (silver) and Nigeria's Ese Brume, who recorded a jump of 6.99m to win gold.

She passed up the last of the ladies' long leap occasion at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon however reserved a last spot in Birmingham regardless of her late appearance. The Ghanaian, who accepted her UK visa, just a short time before her planned occasion at the games on Friday, bested her passing gathering with a jump of 6.85m. After two days after her appearance in Birmingham, Acquah has a decoration to show for her persistent effort and assurance. Acquah turns into the primary Ghanaian lady in history to win a long leap decoration at the Commonwealth games.


Her decoration likewise sees her follow through on her expressions of not blaming her late appearance so as to not perform at the games.

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