{"id":1168733,"date":"2022-08-06T16:22:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T16:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/06\/ghana-disqualified-from-mens-4x100-despite-finishing-third\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T16:22:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T16:22:55","slug":"ghana-disqualified-from-mens-4x100-despite-finishing-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/06\/ghana-disqualified-from-mens-4x100-despite-finishing-third\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana disqualified from men&#8217;s 4&#215;100 despite finishing third"},"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\/08\/image_2022-08-06_143436705-696x497.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Team Ghana\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Dada Oliseh Photos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>An avoidable error has robbed Ghana of a place at Sunday\u2019s anticipated 2022 Commonwealth Games final.<\/p>\n<p>The Gambia will now take the place of Ghana in the final men\u2019s race after a technical violation.<\/p>\n<p>Team Ghana had, at the last minute, made a decision to rest Joseph Paul Amoah on the anchor leg. However, they did not inform race officials one hour to the race, as the rules require.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>This task is supposed to be done by coaches of the team.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers on TV may have noticed that just before the race, it was Amoah\u2019s name that flashed on the screen, and not Abdul Rasheed Sameenu, who was actually on the track.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana fielded Sean Safo-Antwi, Benjamin Azamati, Barnabas Aggerh and Sameenu, in that order. Despite their finishing third in 39.05s, Ghana will have to watch the final from the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no word yet from the team officials.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow.<\/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=\"vc5hXLUBVuk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Protest: Asante Akropong-Kokoben youth damage police facilities, and chief\u2019s palace (5-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vc5hXLUBVuk?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>Image Credit: Dada Oliseh Photos An avoidable error has robbed Ghana of a place at Sunday\u2019s anticipated 2022 Commonwealth Games final. The Gambia will now take the place of Ghana in the final men\u2019s race after a technical violation. Team Ghana had, at the last minute, made a decision to rest Joseph Paul Amoah on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1168735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[21240,5949,13432,85,2109],"class_list":["post-1168733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-4x100","tag-disqualified","tag-finishing","tag-ghana","tag-mens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168733","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=1168733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}