2024 Olympics: Ghana’s 4x100m Relay Team Disqualified
The decision hovers around rules relating to the passage of the baton outside the takeover zone after being drawn in heat 2, lane 3.
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Ghana’s 4x100m relay team has been disqualified from the ongoing 2024 Olympics race, costing them a place in the final.
The decision hovers around rules relating to the passage of the baton outside the takeover zone after being drawn in heat 2, lane 3.
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Ghana’s team including Joe Paul Amoah, Benjamin Azamati, Isaac Botsio and Rasheed Saminu clocked a time of 38.62 seconds.
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Meanwhile, China, France and Canada qualified for the next round.
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This brings an end to Ghana’s medal chase and participation in the Olympics this year. None of the team of eight athletes won a medal unlike in the previous Olympics where boxer Samuel Takyi gave a glimmer of hope by bringing home a bronze.
Ghana’s representative in the 2024 Men’s Olympics 100m freestyle, Harry Stacey, dropped off after finishing Heat 4 under 51.12 seconds while Rose Yeboah, a high jumper, missed out on the finals after failure to clear the bar at 1.92m.
Also, sprinters Benjamin Azamati and Abdul Rasheed Saminu despite making it to the semi-finals respectively finished ninth and seventh in their separate heats, thereby failing to qualify for the final.
Source:opemsuo.com
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