I did not come to Glasgow to win medals - Sprinter

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AdwenKwame 9 years ago

foolish girl...you take taxpayers' money and show zero for it, right?

foolish girl...you take taxpayers' money and show zero for it, right?
kofi USA 9 years ago

At least she performed her job but just came up short of medals.
shuold those who took taxpayer money and yet failed to provide them with jerseys continue to have their job?

At least she performed her job but just came up short of medals.
shuold those who took taxpayer money and yet failed to provide them with jerseys continue to have their job?
OBAA YAA 9 years ago

Idiot, you should direct insult to those who use the taxpayer money ill-prepared them for the tournament.

Idiot, you should direct insult to those who use the taxpayer money ill-prepared them for the tournament.
AdwenKwame 9 years ago

...go and idiot your kotibortorlistic FATHER. aboa like that!!

...go and idiot your kotibortorlistic FATHER. aboa like that!!
GHFUO: nyantakyi, 1/9aa must go ASAP! 9 years ago

u use meets, practice to better your time and use competition like iaaf meets, commonwealth games to claim medals. wat have u been doing all this while. sleeping n sucking dick? how can u use olympic, commonwealth games, iaaf ...
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u use meets, practice to better your time and use competition like iaaf meets, commonwealth games to claim medals. wat have u been doing all this while. sleeping n sucking dick? how can u use olympic, commonwealth games, iaaf meets, wchampionships to better your time? shameful!
Mike NY 9 years ago

if u get a medal today,nothing shd stop u from getting it next tym.dream big u bitch.u shd psych urself that u preparing to go win an event not to go better ur fucking time.grow up.

if u get a medal today,nothing shd stop u from getting it next tym.dream big u bitch.u shd psych urself that u preparing to go win an event not to go better ur fucking time.grow up.
Kwame 9 years ago

How can a fool like you call yourself Kwame. She at least did her duty putting up her best should could give to mother Ghana. A fool like u take all u can from Ghana do nothing it her

How can a fool like you call yourself Kwame. She at least did her duty putting up her best should could give to mother Ghana. A fool like u take all u can from Ghana do nothing it her
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Ahele 9 years ago

with incompetent Dodoo as head of Ghana Athletics and Olympic committee, no medals will be won

with incompetent Dodoo as head of Ghana Athletics and Olympic committee, no medals will be won
Martin 9 years ago

It is ridiculous for this lady to use the Glasgow Commonwealth Games as a training endeavor for future competitions. I do not believe what she said is true. She is mainly making excuses for not winning any medals although sh ...
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It is ridiculous for this lady to use the Glasgow Commonwealth Games as a training endeavor for future competitions. I do not believe what she said is true. She is mainly making excuses for not winning any medals although she posted her best times.
Shabi 9 years ago

What at all is it that has happened to Ghanaians? Ghanaians used to be such intelligent and wise people, but judging from the kind of comments that one routinely comes across in the public domain, on Ghanaweb and on other soc ...
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What at all is it that has happened to Ghanaians? Ghanaians used to be such intelligent and wise people, but judging from the kind of comments that one routinely comes across in the public domain, on Ghanaweb and on other social media platforms, one would think, like the Europeans do, that we still live on trees.

First of all this cheap unknown media outlet, Sportscrusader.com, makes a report which is totally incongruous in substance and nature, to the actual interview which took place on Joy fm last weekend.

Then Ghanaweb randomly and with little circumspect, picks it up and disingenuously plants it on its media platform in a style and manner that would encourage the wretched of the earth to make a meal out of it – and as sure as night follows day, they surely have done so.

In the said interview, which I accidentally came across by sheer happenstance, I overheard a typically idiotic, woefully uninformed and an irritatingly ignorant host of a sports program trying to bully the young girl, who he was interviewing by phone, to accept and submit to his ignorant and spiteful perception that they the Ghanaian athletes had failed miserably at the Commonwealth games.

However by the time this impetuous bumbling journalist had attempted his third question to pry apologetic answers from the girl to his silly subjective questions, this little 20 year-old girl had reduced the image of the said journalist(?) to that of a mere common illiterate – a village buffoon.

In a further attempt to hide his shame and embarrassment at the way the girl had made him look unprofessional and foolish, he made matters worse by trying to stonewall the girl with weird remarks that he did not want academic answers to his questions. He virtually had to beat a retreat from the firm, realistic and unbending opinions of the girl.

The young athlete, who was very well-spoken and polite, but resolute and clear in her answers, made the said journalist, whose name I do not recall, understand that the hundreds of other athletes from many other nations who participated in the games, had immensely benefited from well-planned preparations prior to the tournament. On the other hand, Ghanaian athletes, who were not offered the privilege, nor the encouragement of any meaningful preparations, were being constantly criticized, hounded and discouraged by sections of the Ghanaian media.

Under the circumstances, she made it clear that even though many of them, through personal effort, had improved upon their performances and some had even broken national records, a lot more could have been achieved if the govt and the unsupportive Ghanaian media had also honoured their side of the bargain.

In another attempt to save face, the host of the program attempted to deny that the Ghanaian media were unduly criticizing the athletes. However when the young girl and another person who seemed to be one of the team handlers, made reference to some damning articles against the athletes, this ill-prepared and unprincipled journalist, shut his beak up in retreat.

This eloquent young girl who will definitely go places in the future, either as an athlete , sports administrator or a politician, casually pointed out to the journalist that in spite of all the enthusiasm with which they had participated in the games, it was not possible for them to perform better than others who had prepared for years before the games and that under the circumstances, all that was left for them to do was to do their best at the Games, even if it only meant improving their performances.

Now how can anybody with a little bit of sense in his head, not understand this principled and enlightening posture?

What annoys me more than anything else is the way people, who from the way they present their opinions on Ghanaweb, and who do not appear to be capable of properly wiping their asses, have the temerity and the audacity, normally without knowing the full facts, to insult, vilify, condemn and demonize people like this young girl who at her young age, has achieved more than any of them have ever accomplished in their entire working lifetime.
archipalago 9 years ago

u and mahama are the same

u and mahama are the same
Collins Yeboa Siakwan 9 years ago

Ghanaians will not applaud failure and mediocre.

Ghanaians will not applaud failure and mediocre.
nana 9 years ago

Grasshopper mentality!! stupid statement you went to spend taxpayers

Grasshopper mentality!! stupid statement you went to spend taxpayers
Okro Mouth 9 years ago

Nonsense. Then stay in Ghana and be bettering your time.Why should the tax payer pay for you o ly to better your time?

Nonsense. Then stay in Ghana and be bettering your time.Why should the tax payer pay for you o ly to better your time?
ONYAME NIPA(MAN OF GOD) USA 9 years ago

AMMA GHANA

AMMA GHANA
Backward thinking 9 years ago

You shud have stayed home if you were not going there to win medals, becos the purpose of the tournament is to award medals, you went there against the purpose of the tournament. My dear u shud have stayed home. Don't go to t ...
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You shud have stayed home if you were not going there to win medals, becos the purpose of the tournament is to award medals, you went there against the purpose of the tournament. My dear u shud have stayed home. Don't go to the next competition becos you wud not be going there to win medals as well.
kojo 9 years ago

This by all standards extremely childish. You are presented with an opportunity, you waste it and then have the nerves to make such a self degrading statement.

Wise up because there is no such thing like future competition ...
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This by all standards extremely childish. You are presented with an opportunity, you waste it and then have the nerves to make such a self degrading statement.

Wise up because there is no such thing like future competition. The way to success is the effective use of today. Moron!!
MUMU VOTERS 9 years ago

NDC, WASH AND WEAR?

NDC, WASH AND WEAR?
Bobo 9 years ago

By the next game you would be old and dragging your ass behind you.

By the next game you would be old and dragging your ass behind you.
KKK USA 9 years ago

YOU ARE SO FOOLISH WHAT DO YOU WONT TO WIN IN GLASGOW FOOLISH WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR YOU SOON

YOU ARE SO FOOLISH WHAT DO YOU WONT TO WIN IN GLASGOW FOOLISH WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR YOU SOON
adjoa 9 years ago

You went because of your boyfriend Andrew Owusu. You keep kissing his ass. You are not talented anyway. Ghana should stop relying on weak athlete like you. I'll prefer a cyto to go to these games for experience. on all the mo ...
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You went because of your boyfriend Andrew Owusu. You keep kissing his ass. You are not talented anyway. Ghana should stop relying on weak athlete like you. I'll prefer a cyto to go to these games for experience. on all the money wasted on you and few others you should be at par with Okagbare so stop patronizing you just go to these trip for vacation sankwas
OPANIN KWAKU ATTA 9 years ago

HOW CAN THIS STUPID FOOL,CAN TAKE GHANAIANS FOR A RIDE?

HOW CAN THIS STUPID FOOL,CAN TAKE GHANAIANS FOR A RIDE?
jojo 9 years ago

What makes her think she is going to be selected for the next Commonwealth Games when she performed so badly in this one,she is so full of herself defending the idiots called Professors running Ghana Athletics today,away with ...
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What makes her think she is going to be selected for the next Commonwealth Games when she performed so badly in this one,she is so full of herself defending the idiots called Professors running Ghana Athletics today,away with all of them and let new people come in
Pancho 9 years ago

Went to the games to socialize, sex and partying. You are a real idiot. You should not be running for Ghana. Ghana should be sending hard working local poor athletes that are hungry to learn the sports rather than these usele ...
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Went to the games to socialize, sex and partying. You are a real idiot. You should not be running for Ghana. Ghana should be sending hard working local poor athletes that are hungry to learn the sports rather than these useless good for nothing, foolish idiots running for Ghana. Lazy athlete
Pancho 9 years ago

Went to the games to socialize, sex and partying. You are a real idiot. You should not be running for Ghana. Ghana should be sending hard working local poor athletes that are hungry to learn the sports rather than these usele ...
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Went to the games to socialize, sex and partying. You are a real idiot. You should not be running for Ghana. Ghana should be sending hard working local poor athletes that are hungry to learn the sports rather than these useless good for nothing, foolish idiots running for Ghana. Lazy athlete
Pancho 9 years ago

Went to the games to socialize, sex and partying. You are a real idiot. You should not be running for Ghana. Ghana should be sending hard working local poor athletes that are hungry to learn the sports rather than these usele ...
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Went to the games to socialize, sex and partying. You are a real idiot. You should not be running for Ghana. Ghana should be sending hard working local poor athletes that are hungry to learn the sports rather than these useless good for nothing, foolish idiots running for Ghana. Lazy athlete
Pancho 9 years ago

Went to the games to socialize, sex and partying. You are a real idiot. You should not be running for Ghana. Ghana should be sending hard working local poor athletes that are hungry to learn the sports rather than these usele ...
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Went to the games to socialize, sex and partying. You are a real idiot. You should not be running for Ghana. Ghana should be sending hard working local poor athletes that are hungry to learn the sports rather than these useless good for nothing, foolish idiots running for Ghana. Lazy athlete
Pancho 9 years ago

Went to the games to socialize, sex and partying. You are a real idiot. You should not be running for Ghana. Ghana should be sending hard working local poor athletes that are hungry to learn the sports rather than these usele ...
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Went to the games to socialize, sex and partying. You are a real idiot. You should not be running for Ghana. Ghana should be sending hard working local poor athletes that are hungry to learn the sports rather than these useless good for nothing, foolish idiots running for Ghana. Lazy athlete
Pancho 9 years ago

Went to the games to socialize, sex and partying. You are a real idiot. You should not be running for Ghana. Ghana should be sending hard working local poor athletes that are hungry to learn the sports rather than these usele ...
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Went to the games to socialize, sex and partying. You are a real idiot. You should not be running for Ghana. Ghana should be sending hard working local poor athletes that are hungry to learn the sports rather than these useless good for nothing, foolish idiots running for Ghana. Lazy athlete
Alah 9 years ago

Sport ministers said some stupid things like - those who weep while the national anthem is being played, should be made to represent the country. Then another one said - he was satisfied even though our athletes under perform ...
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Sport ministers said some stupid things like - those who weep while the national anthem is being played, should be made to represent the country. Then another one said - he was satisfied even though our athletes under performed in Glasgow. Now an athlete is saying she did not go Glasgow to win medals. Why did you accept the invitation in the first place, if you knew you were not going there to win anything for us? Talking baloney by these ministers and the athlete (Filing Owusu Agypong, a bad ambassador)
EwuraD 9 years ago

YOU ALL ARE VERY STUPID PAAA!!!!FIRST OF ALL, STOP SAYING TAXPAYERS MONEY CAUSE THE GIRL IS IN CANADA!!!!SHE DECIDED TO REPRESENT HER MOTHERLAND (GHANA) WHEREAS SHE COULD HAVE REPRESENTED CANADA AND ALL U PPLE DOING IS INSULT ...
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YOU ALL ARE VERY STUPID PAAA!!!!FIRST OF ALL, STOP SAYING TAXPAYERS MONEY CAUSE THE GIRL IS IN CANADA!!!!SHE DECIDED TO REPRESENT HER MOTHERLAND (GHANA) WHEREAS SHE COULD HAVE REPRESENTED CANADA AND ALL U PPLE DOING IS INSULTING HER....U FOOLISH PPLE....31 COMMENTS AND ALL I SEE IS INSULTS UPON INSULTS...U GUYS R THE KWASIAFUO...DO U GUYS EVEN KNOW WHAT SHE DID? WHERE YOU THERE WHEN SHE WAS TRAINING FOR THE GAME AND WHAT SHE HAD TO GO THROUGH? FOOLISHNESS....MU Y3 ABOA PAA FOR ALL THAT STUPIDITY Y'ALL TALKING ABT HERE....GHANA'S SPORTS JOURNALS, U GUYS ARE VERY USELESS, UNEDUCATED PEOPLE....I DON'T KNOW WHERE OR HOW U GUYS EVEN GOT THAT JOURNALIST DEGREE BECAUSE YOUR ARTICLES ARE POORLY WRITTEN AND DON'T EVEN MAKE SENSE.....FLINGS NEXT TIME DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT REPRESENTING GHANA ANYMORE BECAUSE THAT COUNTRY IS NATION OF UNGRATEFUL HUMAN BEINGS...TOO MUCH CASAVA EQUALS NON-SENSICAL THINKING FROM OUR PEOPLE...NEVER APPRECIATIVE OF ANYTHING WE DO FOR THEM AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE LACKING IN SOOO MANY THINGS.....I APPLAUD YOU FOR DOING THE BEST YOU CAN FOR OUR COUNTRY BUT NEXT REPRESENT CANADA!!!!!FOOLISH THINGS JUST INSULTING THE GIRL FOR NO REASON......KWASIASEM!!!!

I did not come to Glasgow to win medals - Sprinter

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