{"id":778711,"date":"2020-01-08T18:14:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T18:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/08\/ghanas-skeleton-olympian-akwasi-frimpong-captures-first-top-10-finish\/"},"modified":"2020-01-08T18:14:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T18:14:18","slug":"ghanas-skeleton-olympian-akwasi-frimpong-captures-first-top-10-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/08\/ghanas-skeleton-olympian-akwasi-frimpong-captures-first-top-10-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Skeleton Olympian Akwasi Frimpong captures first top 10 finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Wednesday,  8 January 2020<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>GHANAsoccernet.com <\/p>\n<p>2020-01-08<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/54792348.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ghana\u2019s first skeleton Olympian, Akwasi Frimpong\" title=\"Ghana\u2019s first skeleton Olympian, Akwasi Frimpong\" width=\"295\" height=\"153\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ghana\u2019s first skeleton Olympian, Akwasi Frimpong<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">Ghana\u2019s first skeleton Olympian, Akwasi Frimpong, captured his first top 10 finish of the 2019\/2020 skeleton season during the International Bobsleigh &amp; Skeleton Federation North American\u2019s Cup skeleton races in Lake Placid, New York this week.<\/p>\n<p>Frimpong placed 11th, 10th and 13th, respectively, in three races out of 22 athletes.<\/p>\n<p>His best results of the season were good enough to beat athletes from USA, Canada, Argentina, Australia, Luxembourg and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Frimpong improved his sliding time by more than a second on the same track in Lake Placid, which is the home of the 1932 and 1980 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Frimpong is battling back from an achilles injury and is getting a feel for the sled again. He says it\u2019s inspiring to see Ghana in the middle of the pack in international competitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can do all if we work hard and put our minds to it,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe start times will come back and that can only help me get quicker overall in my sliding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frimpong competes again in Lake Placid in the Inter-Continental Cup races during the week of ?January 23.?<\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles\" style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-size: 90%; background-color: #eeeaea; padding: 5px; margin-top: 10px;\">\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/96124592.jpg\" style=\"padding-right:2px;\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0;width:100%; vertical-align:middle; font-size:11px;\">Courtesy of <b>GHANAsoccernet.com<\/b> &#8211; Ghana&#8217;s leading football news website. Click for more news.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Comments:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis article has no comments yet, be the first to comment\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Wednesday, 8 January 2020 Source: GHANAsoccernet.com 2020-01-08 Ghana\u2019s first skeleton Olympian, Akwasi Frimpong Ghana\u2019s first skeleton Olympian, Akwasi Frimpong, captured his first top 10 finish of the 2019\/2020 skeleton season during the International Bobsleigh &amp; Skeleton Federation North American\u2019s Cup skeleton races in Lake Placid, New York this week. Frimpong placed 11th, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":778712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana&#039;s Skeleton Olympian Akwasi Frimpong captures first top 10 finish - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/08\/ghanas-skeleton-olympian-akwasi-frimpong-captures-first-top-10-finish\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ghana&#039;s Skeleton Olympian Akwasi Frimpong captures first top 10 finish - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sports News of Wednesday, 8 January 2020 Source: GHANAsoccernet.com 2020-01-08 Ghana\u2019s first skeleton Olympian, Akwasi Frimpong Ghana\u2019s first skeleton Olympian, Akwasi Frimpong, captured his first top 10 finish of the 2019\/2020 skeleton season during the International Bobsleigh &amp; Skeleton Federation North American\u2019s Cup skeleton races in Lake Placid, New York this week. 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