{"id":162855,"date":"2024-03-18T14:51:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/18\/south-africa-withdraws-from-hockey-competition-over-substandard-pitch\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T14:51:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:51:31","slug":"south-africa-withdraws-from-hockey-competition-over-substandard-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/18\/south-africa-withdraws-from-hockey-competition-over-substandard-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa withdraws from Hockey competition over substandard pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Citi Sports understands South Africa have withdrawn from competing in the hockey competition of the 13th African Games.<\/p>\n<p>This, according to the South African contingent, is due to the sub standard pitch at the Theodosia Okoh Hockey Stadium that was laid only a few days ago prior to the start of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Team South Africa reportedly isn\u2019t comfortable with the pitch for its 2024 Olympics Bound athletes. The contingent is reportedly also not happy about the overall organization of the Hockey competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Hockey Federation has turned down multiple opportunities to speak on the issue, rather directing for calls to be made to the LOC for an official statement on the reason behind the South Africans withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, Egypt beat Nigeria 5-4 in the Men\u2019s Competition and Ghana is set to play Nigeria in the Women\u2019s Division at 2pm.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana is hoping to add to its medal haul at the African Games it is hosting for the first time. The multi sport competition is due to conclude on March 23.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citi Sports understands South Africa have withdrawn from competing in the hockey competition of the 13th African Games. This, according to the South African contingent, is due to the sub standard pitch at the Theodosia Okoh Hockey Stadium that was laid only a few days ago prior to the start of the competition. Team South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>South Africa withdraws from Hockey competition over substandard pitch - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/18\/south-africa-withdraws-from-hockey-competition-over-substandard-pitch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"South Africa withdraws from Hockey competition over substandard pitch - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Citi Sports understands South Africa have withdrawn from competing in the hockey competition of the 13th African Games. 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