Ghana's 4x100m broadcast team
AdvertisementAnother 4x100m broadcast for Ghana, addition disaster. In Paris, Ghana were butterfingers afterwards initially agreement 6th with a time of 38.62s due to casual a billy alfresco the takeover zone, apropos to the final about-face amid Ibrahim Fuseini and Joseph Paul Amoah
It feels like de ja vu for Benjamin Azamati and Joseph Paul Amoah, who were in the quartet that was butterfingers in the 4x100m final of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics due to addition final about-face affair admitting finishing 7th with 38.08s. This additionally happened beforehand that year at the 2021 World Relays in Silesia
Ghanaians sad afterwards broadcast aggregation was butterfingers from #Paris2024 today#3SportsGH pic.twitter.com/x0ZimJ88Im - #3Sports (@3SportsGh) August 8, 2024 UPDATE: 🇬🇭 Aggregation Ghana accept been clearly butterfingers for a backward billy change in the 4x100m Heat 2.#3SportGH #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/n5kmDbgd0p - #3Sports (@3SportsGh) August 8, 2024 Earlier this year, there were signs of agitation afterwards the billy was alone in the aboriginal qualifier at the World Broadcast Championships. Ghana, with a quartet again of Ibrahim Fuseini, Isaac Botsio, Benjamin Azamati and Joseph Paul Amoah bounced aback on the additional attack to qualify
But questions accept been aloft about the calendar in France. Why was Isaac Botsio dropped? Why did Abdul-Rasheed Saminu opt out of the 200m and after alien to the relays? Why was Fuseini confused from the amateur to the third leg? The answers are not yet out there. But the disappointment, so acutely axiomatic in Ghanaian amusing media circles will amble for a continued time
Similar errors and accustomed outcomes But the affliction from Ghanaians with the broadcast aggregation dates aback to 1996. In the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta USA, Ghana's broadcast aggregation featuring Albert Agyemang, Eric Nkansah, Christian Nsiah, Emmanuel Tuffuor and Aziz Zakari did not alpha the final chase due to an authoritative error
Four years later, in Sydney 2000, Kenneth Andam and Leo Myles Mills abutting Nsiah and Zakari in annular 1, but they did not accomplishment their race
The Commonwealth Games, was perhaps, the best aching to the athletes. The calendar initially had Sean Safo Antwi, Benjamin Azamati, Joseph Paul Amoah and Barnabas Aggerh for the semi-final
But, Joseph Paul Amoah was set to attempt in the 200m final and so administrators replaced him with Abdul-Rasheed Saminu for the ballast leg. This change was not announced to organisers, consistent in a awkwardness for Ghana admitting finishing third with a time of 39.05s
When will all this end?