Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) President, Ben Nunoo Mensah, has highlighted the importance of weightlifting in Ghana’s sports landscape.
He added that the sport has significant potential for winning more medals for Ghana and deserves greater attention and investment in his speech delivered at the unveiling of the renovated National Weightlifting Training Centre. (Click highlighted text to read full story)
The former chairman of the Ghana Weightlifting Federation also emphasized that it is often the lesser-financed sports that have put Ghana on the global stage.
“Weightlifting has the potential to bring home multiple medals. A weightlifter can win as many as 13 medals in one competition and it is these so-called least-financed sports that have consistently raised Ghana’s flag at international competitions.”
“All that these lesser-known sports need is just one percent of what we invest in our national football team-the Black Stars-, and they deserve it, so if we focus solely on developing football at the expense of talents in other sports, we are essentially telling young boys and girls that if their talent isn’t in football, they have no place in Ghana,”
