{"id":1160241,"date":"2022-07-27T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/27\/100-athletes-set-to-represent-ghana-for-commonwealth-games\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T15:45:07","slug":"100-athletes-set-to-represent-ghana-for-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/27\/100-athletes-set-to-represent-ghana-for-commonwealth-games\/","title":{"rendered":"100 athletes set to represent Ghana for Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"497\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image_2022-07-27_091045414-696x497.png\"   alt=\"Photo credit: Getty Images\/ Jim Watson\" title=\"Photo credit: Getty Images\/ Jim Watson\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Getty Images\/ Jim Watson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Minister for Youth and Sports, Mustapha Usiff, has briefed Parliament on Ghana\u2019s participation ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Usiff, speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, noted that 100 athletes from Ghana will take part in the games which start on 28th July, 2022. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Speaker, Ghana is being represented by 100 athletes, who will participate in 13 sporting disciplines including para weight lifting. The other disciplines Ghana will participate in are: athletics, badminton, beach volleyball, boxing, cycling, hockey, judo, para powerlifting, squash, swimming, table tennis, triathlon and weightlifting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur commitment as a country to the Commonwealth Games, through successive regimes, has never been in doubt. It is the reason the\u00a0Ministry of Youth and Sports\u00a0has also extended strong support to the various sports disciplines to ensure that our athletes get ready for this event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He urged all Ghanaians to rally behind the athletes who will lead the country\u2019s quest for a gold medal in the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the benefits to the nation, in terms of improving bilateral relations are enormous, participating in the Commonwealth Games also gives our promising young athletes in schools the opportunity to compete internationally and open doors for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn conclusion, Mr Speaker, I wish to request the support and prayers of the House, as our athletes lift up our flag in Birmingham. May God bless our homeland Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Ghana Athletics Association has been forced to make changes to the men\u2019s 4x100m relay team ahead of the games.<\/p>\n<p>This, according to Joy Sports, was after the duo, Joseph Manu and Emmanuel Yeboah failed to secure visas in time for the competition.<\/p>\n<p>In their stead, local athletes, Barnabas Agerh of the University of Development Studies and Abdul Rasheed Saminu of the University of Ghana will complement the experienced trio of Benjamin Azamati, Joseph Paul and Sean Safo-Antwi.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"gOg2yQbeYfA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Celebrating Atta-Mills: My husband was battered and bruised yet he stood firm - Naadu Mills(27-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gOg2yQbeYfA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo credit: Getty Images\/ Jim Watson The Minister for Youth and Sports, Mustapha Usiff, has briefed Parliament on Ghana\u2019s participation ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Mr Usiff, speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, noted that 100 athletes from Ghana will take part in the games which start on 28th July, 2022. \u201cMr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1160243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1917,1918,79,85,3055,618],"class_list":["post-1160241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-athletes","tag-commonwealth","tag-games","tag-ghana","tag-represent","tag-set"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160241","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=1160241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}