Ghana once again took part in four disciplines- football, boxing, athletics and table tennis. more »

Ghana participated in four disciplines, football, athletics, boxing and table tennis. This was the year Ghana achieved the distinction of being the first African country to win an Olympic football medal-a bronze. Thanks to a brilliant 19th minute goal by defender Issac Asare who scored with a powerful free kick in the match for the bronze against Australia in Barcelona on August 7th. more »

Ghana entered three disciplines, boxing, athletics and table tennis. Even though a couple of the boxers showed marked improvement, their performance was not good enough to win medals. more »

After eight years in the wilderness Ghana was at the Los Angeles Olympics with contestants for boxing and athletics. more »

For the second successive Olympic Games Ghana was not represented at the universal sports extravaganza. This time the boycott of the Moscow Olympics was in sympathy with the US who initiated the withdrawal because of political; differences with the Soviet Union over some crisis in Afghanistan. more »

To start with I went to the Munich Olympics by default. My boss veteran sports writer J.K.Addo- Twum (now Nana Addo-Twum) should have covered the Games for the Daily Graphic but he stepped aside at the last moment and I gleefully stepped into his shoes. more »

For the third consecutive Olympics Ghana entered three sports disciplines, soccer, boxing and athletics. Once again it was boxing that gave Ghana a medal - thanks to Prince Amartey’s bronze when he lost in the semi-finals. PS: The Munich Olympics were nearly marred by the killing of 11 Israeliathletes at the Games Village by Palestinian bandits.It was my first Olympiad and I will later on give readers my first experiences at the biggest sports festival on the planet. more »

Like Tokyo 1964 Ghana once again entered for boxing, athletics and football at the Mexico 1968 Olympics. The football discipline was however on invitation because the zonal winners Morocco pulled out. Their reason was that they felt uncomfortable being in the same group with Israel for political reasons. Ghana had placed second in the qualifying series and the invitation was most welcome. more »

In addition to track and field and boxing Ghana qualified among the 16 finalists in the football series, the first African country south of the Sahara to do so. more »

Ghana won her first Olympic medal courtesy light-welterweight Ike Quartey’s silver in the boxing division at the Rome Olympics in 1960. more »

Ghana (then the Gold Coast) took part in the Olympic Games first time and entered a token team of six athletes more »

Ghana will be among the more than 160 nations at the 29th Olympiad in Beijing, China beginning August 8 2008. It will be Ghana’s 12th participation in the Olympic Games dating back from the XVTH Games in Helsinki, Finland in 1952 .Ghana will be competing in athletics and boxing. more »

The 2007-2008 Premier Football league of Ghana may have officially ended on Sunday July 6th but judging from the not too past history of this national pastime the end is yet to come. The relegation exercise has always created problems and there have been… more »

The experts say history does repeat itself in football and that is the reason why the Ghana Football Association should take precautionary measures to avoid a repetition of the bizarre end experienced in the national premier league 16 years ago. The 1992… more »

Apart from the marvelous organization and top quality football exhibited by well groomed professionals culminating in the best team winning the cup, Euro 2008 scored a lot of marks for the remarkable respect accorded referees by both players and official… more »