{"id":1160035,"date":"2022-07-27T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/27\/gaa-makes-adjustments-to-the-mens-relay-team-at-the-commonwealth-games\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T12:43:00","slug":"gaa-makes-adjustments-to-the-mens-relay-team-at-the-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/27\/gaa-makes-adjustments-to-the-mens-relay-team-at-the-commonwealth-games\/","title":{"rendered":"GAA makes adjustments to the men&#8217;s relay team at the Commonwealth Games."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>In order to compete in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, the United Kingdom, the men&#8217;s 4x100m relay squad from Ghana Athletics Association has been required to make two changes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/6360bf42dd2e4dc698a33856e63dd554\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The five-person squad that participated at the recently concluded World Athletics Championships had to be changed when one of the members encountered difficulties obtaining a UK visa and the other decided to withdraw for personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to the reserve athlete, Emmanuel Yeboah, who ran the third leg of Ghana&#8217;s record-breaking foursome, Joseph Manu requested to be excused from the competition for personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the aforementioned factors, the GAA decided not to enter the pair for the Birmingham Games; this decision was reached even before the world championships in Oregon began.<\/p>\n<p>The GAA is sending in local athletes Abdul-Rasheed Saminu of the University of Ghana and Barnabas Agerh of the University for Development Studies in their place.<\/p>\n<p>The team pledged to return from the Commonwealth Games with a gold medal after breaking a record there (38.07).<\/p>\n<p>The dates of the 2022 Commonwealth Games are July 28\u2013August 8.<\/p>\n<p>Source: myjoyonline.com<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Anilove Trendit (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nBirmingham Games<br \/>\nCommonwealth<br \/>\nCommonwealth Games<br \/>\nJoseph Manu<br \/>\nUnited Kingdom<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to compete in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, the United Kingdom, the men&#8217;s 4x100m relay squad from Ghana Athletics Association has been required to make two changes. The five-person squad that participated at the recently concluded World Athletics Championships had to be changed when one of the members encountered difficulties obtaining a UK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1160036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21547,1918,7128,79,2109,21222,97],"class_list":["post-1160035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-adjustments","tag-commonwealth","tag-gaa","tag-games","tag-mens","tag-relay","tag-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160035","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=1160035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}