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.
Ghana’s team including Joe Paul Amoah, Benjamin Azamati, Isaac Botsio and Rasheed Saminu clocked a time of 38.62 seconds.
Meanwhile, China, France and Canada qualified for the next round.
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