The Ghana Olympic Committee plans to ship a delegation of 40 athletes and coaches to the 2026 Commonwealth Video games.
This was disclosed by the Chairman of the Ghana Olympic Committee, Richard Akpokabi, on the annual normal assembly on Saturday.
“The plan is to ship 40 athletes, coaches, medical and safeguarding officers to this 12 months’s Commonwealth Video games in Glasgow, led in fact by a mission director.”
This determine represents a big lower from the Ghanaian crew within the earlier match.
Ghana represented 100 athletes on the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Video games, consisting of 60 males and 40 girls.
Nonetheless, the choice was additionally influenced by the Commonwealth Video games Federation’s decision to cut back its sports activities program from 19 sports activities to simply 10 in October 2024.
Cricket, area hockey, rugby sevens, squash and wrestling have been all lower as an emergency cost-saving measure after the Australian state of Victoria withdrew from internet hosting the occasion resulting from rising prices.
The Commonwealth Video games will carry collectively Commonwealth and Territory nations and can start on 23 July 2026 and run till 2 August 2026.
