Rio 2016 qualifier and Ghana’s first para cyclist Alem Mumuni is set to attend the second edition of the Liquid Sports Ghana and Cowbell Ghana mentorship programme dubbed “Making it Happen” at the Labone S.H.S. on Thursday, 19th May, 2016. Alem will share his awe inspiring story of surviving polio, surviving discrimination at school, becoming Ghana’s first para cyclist and ...

Ghanaian para-athlete Alem Mumuni says the government must be willing to provide the right atmosphere to help athletes prepare for the upcoming Rio Olympic Games in August. Mumuni has qualified for the event and will be taking part in the men’s cycling tournament. He is expected to compete in the road race, time trial, and the track race at the ...

Two Indian sprinters must still qualify for Rio 2016 after their new national records were not ratified as a result of being recorded on hand-held clocks. Race organisers at Sunday’s Indian Grand Prix could not use electronic timings due to a power cut at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. Amiya Kumar Mallick was 0.07 seconds inside the Olympic men’s 100m ...

Nestlé Ghana Limited, producers of the beverage MILO, has begun a nationwide distribution sports shoes to less-privileged children from deprived communities across the country in fulfilment of promise made to patrons of the fun race during the 28th Accra MILO® Marathon. It will be recalled that the 28th Accra Milo Marathon, held on 21st September 2015, was expanded to include ...

The Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) has confirmed that UK-based athlete Sean Safo-Antwi has been cleared by the IAAF to compete for Ghana. The athlete was third in the British National Indoor Championships this year and decided to switch his allegiance afterwards. He wrote to the IAAF and requested for a switch and British Athletics Association did not contest his decision. ...

Ghanian triple jumper Nadia Eke has set a new national record at an event in New York on Friday. She jumped a distance of 13.49m to break the old record of 13.48m held by France-based Mathile Boateng. The feat has thus qualified Eke to the African Seniors Championships which will be held in South Africa in June. Eke is now ...

The General Assembly of the Diamond League meeting yesterday in Zurich, Switzerland has decided to include Rabat, Morocco as a new host city for the prestigious global series of one-day athletics meetings. The Meeting International Mohammed VI, which is annually held in the Moroccan capital’s Complexe Prince Moulay Abdellah, replaces New York, USA with immediate effect for the 2016 season. ...

South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been denied leave to appeal against his conviction for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The Constitutional Court has made the ruling, meaning Pistorius will now be sentenced in April. Pistorius killed Ms Steenkamp in February 2013 after firing four times through a locked toilet door. A manslaughter verdict was overturned in December and a ...

World 1500m champion Abeba Aregawi has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned substance. The 25-year-old Ethiopia-born Swede failed an out-of-competition test conducted by governing body the IAAF. Aregawi, who won gold at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow and 2014 World Indoor Championships in Sopot, has requested a B sample be tested. Britain’s Hannah England finished fourth ...

The IAAF has provisionally suspended the chief executive of Athletics Kenya amid allegations he asked athletes for bribes to reduce doping bans. The governing body for athletics said it took the decision concerning Isaac Mwangi “in the interests of the integrity of the sport”. Meanwhile, Kenya has been given until 5 April to show it complies with the World Anti-Doping ...