Ghana athletics will bounce back — Prof Dodoo
The President of the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) says the association needs the patience and support of Ghanaians as it implements its long-term plan to return Ghana athletics to its glory days.
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Ghana made remarkable progress at the weekend when the nation’s quartet, Agnes Abu, Elizabeth Dadzie, Lydia Mato and Janet Amponsah smashed records in their first attempt at the US Junior College Championships in New York.
Dadzie and Mato crowned it by winning the best overall field athlete and best overall track athlete awards respectively.
Sprint queen, Amponsah also put down a national indoor record of 23.81secs, enroute to her blowout victory.
“It’s still early days, and this is just a small step in the rebuilding process, but we are definitely most thankful to God for the early returns on this long journey”, Prof Dodoo stated.
Dodoo highlighted the effort of his colleagues on the association who have been passionate about changing the face of the sport across the globe.
“Our senior athletes have complained loudly about how the money available from government is not sufficient to motivate them, hopefully, the opportunity to improve their educational lives at the next level will help to motivate this next generation of athletes, because there is no bigger investment in the future, than that, he said.
‘We’ll continue to create these opportunities for our athletes to better themselves, because in so doing, we give them a level of training that at this moment of rebuilding we are unable to offer them here. Ghana will be the beneficiary of both their athletic and academic success”, he stressed.
