{"id":1079358,"date":"2022-05-07T11:30:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/07\/i-nearly-quit-the-sport-i-love-in-2019-ghanaian-sprinter-reveals\/"},"modified":"2022-05-07T11:30:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T11:30:59","slug":"i-nearly-quit-the-sport-i-love-in-2019-ghanaian-sprinter-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/07\/i-nearly-quit-the-sport-i-love-in-2019-ghanaian-sprinter-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Nearly Quit The Sport I Love in 2019\u201d – Ghanaian Sprinter Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ghanaian athlete, Saminu Abdul Rasheed has revealed that he nearly quit the sport after secondary school in 2019.<\/p>\n

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The University of Ghana student however stayed grounded in the face of numerous challenges and clocked a Personal Best of 10.36secs to win the GNPC Ghana\u2019s Fastest Human a year later. The level 200 Public Administration student spoke exclusively to Africa-foot.com.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur biggest problem in Ghana as athletes is so many issues. \u201cAs at now we don\u2019t have many competitions to participate and how we eat to train is not easy. \u201cGood infrastructure, that\u2019s our biggest problem,\u201d Saminu Abdul Rasheed told Africa-foot.com. \u201cIt seems Ghana we don\u2019t care about athletics and that has made many young athletes grow up and give up after Senior High School. \u201cThey couldn\u2019t get the chance to go to the Universities, they will give up,\u201d Rasheed told Africa-foot.com. \u201cThat was going to happen to me in 2019 because I finished High School and I said let me go back to the street, I won\u2019t do athletics anymore.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI won\u2019t run, no one should come and tell me that I should come back to the track but University of Ghana recruited me and brought back to the system and I tried to fit in. \u201cHow can athletes improve their times? Rasheed quizzed. \u201cAt least in a month you should run two competitions but we don\u2019t get that chance.\u201d Rasheed will now focus on the Africa and the World University Games in Kenya and China respectively having come third in\u00a0this year\u2019s Zonal National Championship with a time of 10.564secs.<\/p>\n

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Ghanaian athlete, Saminu Abdul Rasheed has revealed that he nearly quit the sport after secondary school in 2019. The University of Ghana student however stayed grounded in the face of numerous challenges and clocked a Personal Best of 10.36secs to win the GNPC Ghana\u2019s Fastest Human a year later. The level 200 Public Administration student […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1079360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1750,476,3412,51,12324,12325],"class_list":{"0":"post-1079358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-ghanaian","9":"tag-love","10":"tag-quit","11":"tag-reveals","12":"tag-sport","13":"tag-sprinter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}