The President of the National Paralympic Committee (NPC), Bishop Adjah Coffie has stated his disappointment about the former leadership of Ghana Amputee Football headed by Rev. Richard Nii Amartey Adesah. He made this assertion on last Wednesday, when a group of media men visited his office at Adabraka in Accra. The mandate given to the … Read more
IPC chief Xavier Gonzalez said he was impressed with the “commitment and enthusiasm” shown by Tokyo The International Paralympic Committee is “greatly encouraged” by the progress being made by the organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Games. The governing body completed a review in the Japanese capital on Thursday. Only 12% of available tickets had been … Read more
Is it becoming a crime to compete for Ghana? On 29th August, 2016, Sports Minister Hon. Nii Lante Vanderpuye in an interview on Happy FM said his outfit had no money to buy tickets for the Black Stars players to fly down to play the 2017 AFCON qualifier with Rwanda because he is saving the … Read more
The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games was brought to a close inside a packed Maracana Stadium on Sunday evening. Singers, dancers and fireworks lit up the iconic stadium before tributes were paid to Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad, who died on Saturday. Sir Philip Craven, International Paralympic Committee president, said the movement was “united in grief”. Referring … Read more
An Iranian Para-cyclist has died after a crash during the men’s C4-5 road race at the Rio Paralympics. The International Paralympic Committee said Bahman Golbarnezhad, 48, suffered cardiac arrest after the incident on a “mountainous stretch” of circuit. “The ambulance then diverted to the nearby Unimed Rio Hospital in Barra where he passed away soon … Read more