{"id":1168899,"date":"2022-08-06T20:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/06\/team-ghana-issues-apology-over-disqualification-today-set-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-the-issue\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T20:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T20:00:29","slug":"team-ghana-issues-apology-over-disqualification-today-set-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-the-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/06\/team-ghana-issues-apology-over-disqualification-today-set-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-the-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Ghana Issues Apology Over Disqualification Today, Set To Get To The Bottom Of The Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>The Management of Team Ghana at Birmingham 2022 has noted that they will get to the bottom of the reason why Ghana\u2019s men relay team were disqualified from the 4 by 100 semifinal today. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Management of Team Ghana at Birmingham 2022 is bitterly disappointed with events at the Commonwealth Games that robbed Ghana&#8217;s 4&#215;100 relay team on Saturday.\u00a0We were confident that the athletes who put in hours, months and years training for their chance at glory would get at least the opportunity to contest for a medal.\u201d The statement noted. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/a96e7132fb2345daac34c453bbb85363\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2542087b191045748279e26a0ebeadea\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The statement continued; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2aeb042bfd694fc3a5b49a0718c6c1f4\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4ed0190e4e5342cbbefbf3631265c289\"\/>\u201cWe share in the disappointment of the athletes, fans and country that they were denied that opportunity as it turned out.The Chef de Mission of Team Ghana has requested a thorough report from the Ghana Athletics Association leadership and coaches to understand the circumstances that led to disqualification of the team &#8212; and the denial of a lifetime opportunity for the relay team. We are determined to get to the bottom of the issue and ensure that necessary actions are taken and the\u00a0required lessons are learnt from the episode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team Ghana was disqualified following a technical violation, which allowed Gambia to take Ghana\u2019s place in 4\u2019100 men\u2019s final race. <\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Abdul-Jalilu (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<br \/>\nGambia<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Management of Team Ghana at Birmingham 2022 has noted that they will get to the bottom of the reason why Ghana\u2019s men relay team were disqualified from the 4 by 100 semifinal today. \u201cThe Management of Team Ghana at Birmingham 2022 is bitterly disappointed with events at the Commonwealth Games that robbed Ghana&#8217;s 4&#215;100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1168900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,2211,9892,85,5051,1222,618,97,285],"class_list":["post-1168899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-apology","tag-bottom","tag-disqualification","tag-ghana","tag-issue","tag-issues","tag-set","tag-team","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168899","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=1168899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}