Team Ghana have successfully landed in France ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics games in order to enhance their preparations ahead of the championship.
The team arrived in France in the early hours of Thursday before moving to their base in Strasbourg.
Team Ghana will be represented by nine athletes at the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The team includes the 4x100m relay team in track and field, Joselle Alice Mensah and Harry Stacey competing in swimming.
The track and field athletes comprise Abdul Saminu for the men’s 100m and 200m and Joseph Paul Amoah, Isaac Botsio, Benjamin Azamati, Edwin Gadayi, and Fusseini Ibrahim competing in the men’s 4×100m relay.
African high jump queen Rose Yeboah will represent the country in the women’s high jump event.
Ghana’s representatives at the games consist of 21 members, including Ghana Olympic Committee President Ben Nunoo Mensah, Chef de Mission, Isaac Kwasi Aboagye ,coaches, medics, federation heads, and a press attaché.
The team will train in Strasbourg for two weeks before moving to the Games Village in Paris on July 21.
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will run from July 26 to August 11.
Since 1960, Ghana has only five Olympic medals to boast of: one silver and three bronze in Boxing, and one bronze in Football.
In an interview with JoySports before her departure to France, Rose Yeboah expressed optimism about improving and ultimately winning a medal at the Olympics.
Qualifying for Olympics is such a great experience and I am really happy to see myself there to compete for my country Ghana.
Everyone should expect me qualifying to the finals and seeing myself on the podium. It will be such a great experience if at least I make it to the finals and get a medal.
Story by: Asack Pius| univers.ug.edu.gh
