Paris 2024: Capacity building must be the focus – Hon. Woyome
Story by Michael Okuley, Paris. The uninspiring campaign by Ghana in the ongoing Paris 2024 Olympic Games has gotten much talking, and one such individual is the Member of Parliament for South Tongu, Kobina Mensah Woyome. Ghana, in her final event, got disqualified at the semi-finals of the men’s 4x100m relay in the early hours […]
Paris 2024: Double joy for Ghana as sprint duo makes 100m semis
By Michael Okuley Ghana has shaken the Olympics pressure following the qualification of sprint duo Benjamin Azamati and Abdul Rasheed Saminu for the semifinals of the 100m in the Paris 2024 Olympics. Ghana started life in the competition on a bad note after swimmer Harry Stacey and High Jumper Rose Yeboah failed to progress to […]
PARIS2024: Ghana’s swimmer Harry Stacey ends Olympic dream; finishes 7th in Heat 4
By: Michael Okuley, Paris Ghana’s swimmer Harry Stacey has ended his Olympic dream after making a time of 51.12 to finish 7th in Heat 4 of the men’s 100m Freestyle event. The national record holder with the time of 57.50 was the 4th to dive into the water but was unable to recover leading to […]
Google celebrates Paris Olympics with playful doodle
Paris Olympics will get underway tonight with a glittering opening ceremony that has been planned on River Seine. Unlike the opening ceremonies of the previous Olympic Games, the opening ceremony of the Paris Games will not happen inside a stadium and instead is set to take place in open. Over 10,000 athletes are set to […]
France’s rail network disrupted by ‘malicious acts’ ahead of Olympics opening ceremony
French rail company SNCF says its high-speed network has been targeted by “malicious acts” aimed at paralysing the system. It comes hours before the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympic Games. Several high-speed TGV lines have been hit to the west, north and east of Paris and queues have formed at Gare Montparnasse station in […]
American rapper Snoop Dogg to carry Olympic torch
American rapper Snoop Dogg has been named as one of the final torchbearers of the Olympic flame before Friday’s opening ceremony in Paris. The 52-year-old will carry the torch through the streets of Saint-Denis in the north of Paris, which is home to the Stade de France Olympic Stadium, on Friday. The Saint-Denis stretch is […]
