{"id":1174156,"date":"2022-08-11T11:55:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T11:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/11\/i-had-malaria-and-a-boil-under-my-armpit\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T11:55:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T11:55:25","slug":"i-had-malaria-and-a-boil-under-my-armpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/11\/i-had-malaria-and-a-boil-under-my-armpit\/","title":{"rendered":"I had malaria and a boil under my armpit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"554\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1660218925_709_image_2022-08-03_140050044-696x554.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Joseph Commey\/ Photo credit: Getty Images\/ Rober Cianflone\/\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph Commey\/ Photo credit: Getty Images\/ Robert Cianflone\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghanaian boxer, Joseph Commey has opened up on what forced him to settle for silver in the just-ended 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>Commey who was scheduled to fight with Northern Ireland\u2019s Jude Gallagher was declared unfit on the eve of the featherweight fight for a gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports suggested the young athlete was rushed to the infirmary after complaining of feverishness. <\/p>\n<p>He, thus settled for the silver medal, and Gallagher was awarded the gold <\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was going to the finals when I was struck with the illness. I had both malaria and a boil under my armpit. After the checkup, I was told by the doctor that I couldn\u2019t fight even though I insisted on fighting,\u201d he said as quoted by 3Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAnything could have happened if I had fought, so we give glory to God in all things. Maybe next time I might win gold or at the Olympics games, I might win gold,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Commey enjoyed an incredible final run, recording consecutive victories before dominating his counterparts Alex Maduka and Muhammad Husammudin in the quarter and semi-finals respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana concluded the Games with five medals.<\/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=\"ngCa6cpoJcc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Sports on Adom TV (11-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ngCa6cpoJcc?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>Joseph Commey\/ Photo credit: Getty Images\/ Robert Cianflone\/ Ghanaian boxer, Joseph Commey has opened up on what forced him to settle for silver in the just-ended 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Commey who was scheduled to fight with Northern Ireland\u2019s Jude Gallagher was declared unfit on the eve of the featherweight fight for a gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1166188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10337,3022,2737],"class_list":["post-1174156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-armpit","tag-boil","tag-malaria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174156","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=1174156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}